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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 cutting options in TopMod

TopMod has three cutting options that can be used to shave off portions of a model. They work by making cuts based on a selection of an edge, vertex, or face. These tools are selected from the Conical icon tray that is shown in the following image:

Using cutting options in TopMod

Getting ready

If you still have the program open from the previous recipe, save your work and reload TopMod. Open the first model we labeled as base on the workspace.

Tip

If you want to revert to the default settings, then save your model and reload TopMod. To revert to the default view settings, select Reset Camera from the menu under View.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Go to the Conical icon tray and choose the Cut by Face Mode icon [How to do it...].
  2. Select the face on the model, as shown in the following image, set the offset to 2.0 in the Tool Options window, and click on Perform Cutting:
    How to do it...
  3. Select the face and cut it one more time. The model should look like the one shown in the following image:
    How to do it...
  4. Go back to the Conical...