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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 extruding options in TopMod


TopMod provides a library of seven different primitives. They are a series of geometric forms that are the simplest objects a 3D program can produce.

In this recipe, we're going to make some interesting forms by building them from a dodecahedron. We'll use two extrude tools: the Doo Sabin Extrude and Dome Extrude Modes. They can be seen respectively in the following circled icons:

Getting ready

You'll need to select the dodecahedron from the primitive's icon tray. Zoom to a comfortable work size.

Before we get started, let's look at the selection tools. These are called Selection Masks. We'll be using three out of the four available masks that are located in the icon tray under the program's menu. They can be seen in the following image:

From here, we'll be able to select three of the major components of a polygon mesh: vertices, faces, and edges, as show in the following image:

Click on any part of the model to select it and click and hold Ctrl to deselect it...