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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

Let's print!

One of the challenges of 3D printing is to make a print with a smooth surface that retains all of its fine details. We're accustomed to our everyday plastic objects having a surface with a glass-like sheen, but these objects have been manufactured with an entirely different process. Recreating the finishes used by traditional plastic molding technologies is impossible with a RepRap machine. However, there are methods to create a finish with higher detail using RepRap-based printers. We'll explore how we can accomplish this by increasing our printer's resolution.

Hot-end nozzle sizes

There are commercial hot ends available that have nozzle sizes varying from 0.2 mm to 0.75 mm. Ideally, each of these nozzle sizes will print layers that are slightly below its bore size. The reasoning behind this is that a print is made of successive layers, which are built upon each other. For each layer to bond, the layer heights must be squeezed against each other. We can see...