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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Salinas
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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 Repetier-Host for analysis

Repetier-Host is a popular host software package which contains a lot of useful features. The object analysis tool is one of these features. Not only does Repetier-Host analyze the imported model, but it will attempt to make basic repairs.

Tip

More information about Repetier-Host can be found in the Preface.

In this recipe, we'll use this program to analyze a model saved in both .obj and .stl formats.

Getting ready

You'll need the .stl and .obj files of the model that we made in Chapter 6, Making the Impossible. It looks similar to the one shown in the following image. From this point on, let's refer to it as the capsule.

Getting ready

You'll also need to modify it with TopMod for a second model. Do this by selecting the pentagon face as shown in the following image on the left-hand side and extruding it with Doo Sabin Extrude Mode with a Length of -4.000:

Getting ready

The finished result should look like the preceding image on the right-hand side. We'll refer to...