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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

Aligning the scans with MeshLab

We have half a dozen or more shell segments that we made of our model with DAVID Laserscanner. How do we assemble all this into a completed model? One of the powerful features of MeshLab is the alignment tool, and in this recipe, we'll learn how to use it by stitching together all of our scans.

Getting ready

You'll need all the scans that you made of your model. They should be clean and free of all artifacts.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Open your folder containing the .obj files you made in DAVID Laserscanner. Select all of them and click on Open. All of the scan segments will merge together on your workspace, shown as follows:
    How to do it...
  2. Go to the icon bar and select the Show Layer Dialog icon [How to do it...]. This will open a box to the right of the workspace, displaying a list of the scan layers.
  3. Go back to the icon bar and select the Align icon [How to do it...]. Two things will occur. First, a new window will pop open. This window contains a list of the open scan files...