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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

Making textures with Meshmixer


Meshmixer offers a great set of sculpting brushes. One powerful feature is the ability to stamp or drag a pattern. These tools allow a variety of textures to be applied to the surface of a model with stencils. In this recipe, we're going to look at how this works using the three default stencils.

Getting ready

You'll only need Meshmixer for this recipe.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Open Meshmixer and select Import Sphere.

  2. Go to the toolbar and select Sculpt. At the top in the pop-up menu, toggle to Surface.

  3. From the new menu selection, choose Stencils. From the pop-up row on the right-hand side of the window, choose the Stencil icon [].
  4. Your drawing brush will now use this stencil to draw with. You can make changes to the brush characteristics from the Properties window.

  5. Using the following sphere, change some of the properties of the stencil to experiment with how it can make textures:

  6. Select the remaining two stencils and experiment with how they work...