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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

Leveling the build platform

Let's take a look at the most common issue that can affect the printing of the first few layers: an unleveled build platform. The following are some very important reasons to keep your build platform leveled:

  • To keep a print adhered to the build plate. A level bed will allow an even first layer to be applied.
  • To keep the first print layers from becoming distorted. In areas where the distance is too far from the nozzle tip, filament layers will be weak. In areas where the nozzle tip is pressed against the build surface, the filament will be squished too thin.
  • To reduce the risk of an extruder jam. If an area of the build plate is too tight against the hot end nozzle, internal pressure can build within the hot end and cause stripping of the filament at the extruder.
  • To reduce the warping of the print. In areas where the nozzle tip is spaced too far from the build plate, the poor adhesion of the filament layer will be prone to warping.

The following recipe will...