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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

Controlling the flow rate in Skeinforge

Flow rate is the speed in which material is extruded from a nozzle. It works proportionally with the feed rate, which is the speed in which the extruder (or the x and y axes platform) physically moves. If the extruder moves very fast, a higher flow rate will be necessary, and for a slower extruder speed, a lower flow rate would be required.

For a new user of Skeinforge, these adjustments can be confusing. We'll keep the adjustments to a minimum, and we'll only examine how the flow rate affects a model. In this recipe, we'll calibrate a rate that is near perfect to the width of the nozzle's diameter.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll be using the thin wall calibration from the essential calibration kit, which we downloaded from Thingiverse. You'll also need precision calipers. Trying to make a precise measurement with a metric rule will not work well with this calibration.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Slice...