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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 SketchUp for editing meshes

In this recipe, we're going to repair the self-intersecting triangles in the extended capsule model. We'll do this by editing the mesh with SketchUp Make. SketchUp is the only program that we've reviewed in this book which will allow us the access we need to make this repair.

Getting ready

You'll need SketchUp Make and the extended capsule .stl file. Use the original file that hasn't had repairs from the previous recipes.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Open SketchUp and import the extended capsule .stl file. Select the model. You should see a blue boundary box surrounding the model. This signifies that the model is a solid component.
  2. We need to edit the individual components of the model. To do this, go to Edit and choose Solid Component at the bottom of the screen. Then, choose Edit Component from the cascaded menu.
  3. Now, we're going to create edges along the perimeter of the extrusion. Choose the Lines icon and move...