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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

Adjusting the scale in Skeinforge

The scale plugin is an option that's available to make small changes in the scale of a printed model. This is accomplished by adjusting the XY Plane Scale (ratio) and the Z axis Scale (ratio).

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use the calibration cube from the essential calibration kit that we downloaded from Thingiverse. You'll also need precision calipers.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. In Skeinforge, select Activate Scale, keeping the default values.
  2. Slice the calibration cube with Skeinforge and print it. We'll use this as a reference to compare with the next print.
  3. The default value in XY Plane Scale (ratio) is 1.01. This is an automatic increase of 1 percent. For this test, we'll choose an arbitrary 5( )percent increase. This will make 1.05 the new ratio value. Enter 1.05 in the XY Plane Scale (ratio) tab.
  4. Slice the calibration cube with Skeinforge and print it.
  5. The default value in Z axis Scale (ratio) is 1.0. This automatically...