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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

Troubleshooting issues with the x, y, and z axes

The RepRap Mendel design is a basic Cartesian robot. It positions the extruder using three axes to calculate a point in space. There are many different frame designs that can achieve this. The Prusa Mendel design moves the build platform along the y axis and the extruder across the x axis. The entire x axis assembly is raised and lowered along the z axis. Belts, pulley bearings, and rods are necessary to achieve this movement. The primary visual difference between most 3D printers is what holds it all together. This is the frame, and it should be sturdy and well maintained.

In this recipe, we'll look at some issues that can affect this system and how we can keep it well maintained.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. The frame is what holds it all together. If the nuts and bolts loosen, the square of the frame may shift; circles will become ellipses, and precision parts might not fit together. It's very important to keep all...