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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Salinas
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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

Introduction

In this chapter, we're going to use at a 3D CAD program called SketchUp Make. What makes this program different from most CAD programs is the ease of its use. SketchUp is not a parametric modeler such as AutoCAD or Solidworks. It doesn't require heavy training and a lot of investment in money. It's an easy, intuitive modeler that allows for direct interaction with the geometry. This provides greater flexibility in making a model on the spur of a moment when creativity sparks.

Later in this chapter, we'll learn how to calibrate the mechanics of our printing by making some changes in the motion of the printer. We'll also examine a variety of solutions for controlling print warping. Controlling warping of prints made with ABS is a very common issue. We'll take a look at different solutions for this problematic issue.