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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

Stamping stencils with Meshmixer


In this recipe, we're going to work through an exercise using the stencils we made with Paint.NET. We'll use the starfish model we made in Chapter 6, Making the Impossible, as our work example. We'll find that stamping stencils with Meshmixer is an easy solution for making a realistic organic form using patterns and textures.

Getting ready

You'll need the starfish model that we made in TopMod.

First, we'll need to do a little work with the model before we start. Let's take a look at the following image of real starfish:

We'll need to model some more features of the starfish before we can add a texture.

The starfish on the left-hand side of the following screenshot is what we made in TopMod. The starfish on the right-hand side has been modeled in more detail using the sculpting brushes in Meshmixer. You should be familiar with these tools from the Meshmixer recipes in Chapter 2, Optimizing the Printing Process.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. First, we...