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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Salinas
Book Image

3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By: Salinas

Overview of this book

A systematic guide consisting of over 100 recipes which focus on helping you understand the process of 3D printing using RepRap machines. The book aims at providing professionals with a series of working recipes to help make their fuzzy notions into real, saleable projects/objects using 3D printing technology. This book is for novice designers and artists who own a RepRap-based 3D printer, have fundamental knowledge of its working, and who desire to gain better mastery of the printing process. For the more experienced user, it will provide a handy visual resource, with side-by-side comparisons of the two most popular slicers, Skeinforge and Slic3r. A basic understanding of designing and modeling principles and elementary knowledge of digital modeling would be a plus.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

A HIPS filament

High-impact polystyrene (HIPS) is a great lightweight plastic that has excellent dimensional stability. It's a common plastic that's used in the manufacturing of toys and product casings. It's very much like ABS and has a similar range of available colors.

The average temperature for 3D extrusion should be around 220 to 230 degrees Celsius. It has low warp characteristics and prints well on acrylic, glass, and Kapton tape. A heated bed temperature of up to 110 degrees Celsius is helpful.

Its special characteristic is that it's dissolvable in limonene (citrus cleaner). This makes it a good material for printing dissolvable support material with a dual extruder.

HIPS should be used in a well-ventilated area. HIPS products are capable of releasing small amounts of fumes at high temperatures. While these fumes are generally considered tolerable, care should be taken to minimize exposure.