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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 TopMod for remeshing


TopMod offers 36 different remeshing schemes and this makes the program valuable for this function alone. We're going to explore the most common schemes for subdividing surfaces into higher density meshes.

Getting ready

You'll need TopMod3D open with your cube loaded on your workspace and zoomed to a comfortable work size.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Go to the menu and select Remeshing and then 4-Conversion. From the next tiled window, select Catmull-Clark. On the workspace, there is a floating Tool Options window. Select Perform Remeshing. Save the model with a filename: cube_catmull_clark_1.

  2. Select Perform Remeshing again. Save the model with a filename: cube_catmull_clark_2.

  3. Select Perform Remeshing for a third time. Save the model with a filename: cube_catmull_clark_3.

  4. Select the undo icon from the toolbar. Continue to undo two more times until the model is reverted back to the cube.

  5. Go to the menu and select Remeshing and then 4-Conversion. From the...