3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder电子书

3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

Table of Contents

3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. 3D Printing Basics

What is 3D printing?

What defines 3D printing?

What to design for?

How do FFF printers work?

The anatomy of a print

FFF design considerations

Overhangs and supports

Supportless 3D printing

Y – gentle overhangs

H – bridging

T – orientation

Wall thickness

Holes in models

Summary

2. Beginning Blender

Why Blender?

The price is right

Blender is comprehensive

It's getting better all the time

But Blender isn't perfect

Downloading and installing Blender

The default view

The 3D View

The 3D cursor

The best settings

A scroll-wheel mouse and number pad

A laptop with a touch pad and no number pad

Object creation

Navigating the view

Jumping to rotation

Panning the view

Zooming the view

Orthographic versus perspective view

Wireframe and solid view

Transforming the object

Controlling transformations

Controlling the view

Axis locking

Precise transformation

Origin manipulation

Duplicating objects

Object selection

Shift select

Border select

Circle select

The Edit mode

Parts of objects

Incremental saving

Blender to real life

Exporting an STL

Summary

3. Measuring Basics

Measuring with a ruler

Measuring with calipers

Manual or Vernier calipers

Digital calipers

Grid paper trace method

Suitable objects

Object preparation

Importing the image into Blender

Increasing reference pictures

3D scanning

Summary

4. An SD Card Holder Ring

Taking measurements

Modeling the ring

Modeling the finger

Putting the ring on the floor

Finishing the ring

Making a test print

Resizing the test ring

Adding an SD card holder

Organizing by layers

Creating a virtual SD card

Putting it all together

Extra credit

Summary

Index