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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 (19 chapters)
3D Printing with RepRap Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Skeinforge with a 0.5 mm nozzle


In this recipe, we will run a series of tests using the 0.5 mm nozzle to print in 0.4 mm, 0.3 mm, 0.2 mm, and 0.1 mm layers.

Registering a bore size in Skeinforge is not a simple task. It requires you to calculate a ratio for each layer of a different thickness. Following the steps in this recipe will help you understand the process and make it easy to make adjustments for any change in the nozzle size or print layer.

Note

If you don't have a 0.5 mm nozzle, then refer to the following recipe that covers your nozzle size.

Getting ready

The Thingiverse website is a file-sharing site of user-created digital designs. It has many small models that can be used to make quick and efficient print tests. We'll use the one that's designed for surface calibration. It's a good shape for testing resolutions and small enough to print quickly, without much filament waste. It can be downloaded at www.thingiverse.com/thing:39050.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Open...