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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

Pronterface

Pronterface is a G-code sender and the graphical user interface of the host. It has a simple set of movement and temperature controls, as shown in the following screenshot:

Pronterface

By clicking on the model in the plate window, a pop-up window will appear. By holding Shift on the keyboard, the print layers can be examined by scrolling the mouse wheel. Refer to the following screenshot:

Pronterface

Printrun's easy interface and good operating features makes it a popular host for many RepRap machines. Its interface is not as sleek as some of the others, but it's a no-frills, dependable work horse.

A good tutorial on using Printrun can be found at http://www.plasticscribbler.com/tutorial/getting-started/item/21-getting-started-with-pronterface#.UxzyAPldUps.

A precompiled version can be downloaded from http://koti.kapsi.fi/~kliment/printrun/.