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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

Creating handles in TopMod


The creation of a handle or hole between two faces of a model's mesh is generally referred to as high-genus modeling. TopMod produces a watertight two-manifold model when these tools are used to make multiple connections. What this basically means is that we'll be able to create objects with intersecting loops and holes. We'll see how this works in this recipe.

We'll be using two tools from the High Genus tray: Add Handle/Hole and Add Handle (Shape Interpolation). These are circled in the same order in the following image:

Getting ready

You'll need the model we worked with from the earlier recipe. It's the base model with the separated partial dodecahedron.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Orient your model similar to the one on the left-hand side in the following image. Choose the Add Handle/Hole Mode icon [].
  2. Select the vertex shown by the number 1.

  3. Now, reorient your model similar to the one on the right-hand side in the preceding image. Left-click on the...