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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

Taking proper care of the build platform surface

Most DIY 3D printers work on the surface of a glass plate. This makes the surface of the glass a very important substrate of the build platform. How well the print adheres to this surface will determine the success of the printing.

In this recipe, we'll follow some suggestions on how to care for the glass plate and how to optimize the surface for the ABS and PLA filaments.

Getting ready

You'll need rubbing alcohol, tape, and soft rags for cleaning. You will also need straight-edge razors designed for scraping windows and hairspray. The following recipe will explain the supplies needed, in greater detail.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Keeping the glass secured to the build platform is an important first step! Sometimes, a shift in the x and y axes may occur between print layers because of an unsecured glass plate. It's been a popular trend for RepRap printers to utilize metal clips to hold the glass plate against the...