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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

Using 3D tools from the Extension Warehouse


The Extension Warehouse is owned and operated by Trimble Navigation, Ltd., the owners of SketchUp. It is a depository of add-ons that can be used to enhance the features of SketchUp. It continues to grow with the contributions of developers who write small plugins and share them on the site.

In this recipe, we will install SketchUp STL. This is an add-on that will give us the functionality to import and export the .stl files.

Getting ready

Go to http://extensions.sketchup.com/. Here, you'll find categories of add-ons that are available. Choose the 3D Printing category. From this page, choose SketchUp STL. Download it, and follow the instructions to install it.

How to do it...

Open SketchUp and load the warp-test model we made in the preceding recipe. Then, proceed as follows:

  1. We'll export the model as a .stl file. Make sure that the MakerBot build volume is unhidden. Go to File and choose Export STL.

  2. A pop up will prompt for information. Choose the Export...