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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Richard Salinas
Book Image

3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By: Richard Salinas

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
3D Printing with RepRap Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using TopMod for remeshing


TopMod offers 36 different remeshing schemes and this makes the program valuable for this function alone. We're going to explore the most common schemes for subdividing surfaces into higher density meshes.

Getting ready

You'll need TopMod3D open with your cube loaded on your workspace and zoomed to a comfortable work size.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. Go to the menu and select Remeshing and then 4-Conversion. From the next tiled window, select Catmull-Clark. On the workspace, there is a floating Tool Options window. Select Perform Remeshing. Save the model with a filename: cube_catmull_clark_1.

  2. Select Perform Remeshing again. Save the model with a filename: cube_catmull_clark_2.

  3. Select Perform Remeshing for a third time. Save the model with a filename: cube_catmull_clark_3.

  4. Select the undo icon from the toolbar. Continue to undo two more times until the model is reverted back to the cube.

  5. Go to the menu and select Remeshing and then 4-Conversion. From the...