3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle电子书

3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

Table of Contents

3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

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

Rotating 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. Sculpting the Face of the Sun

Creating the base object

Setting up sculpt

Drawing the face

Smoothing the edges

Adding the nose and eyes

Pulling out the rays

Sharpening the details

Summary

4. Cutting a 3D Jigsaw Puzzle

Resizing the model

How big should it be?

Scaling with properties

Building a puzzle piece

Building the basic shape

Sizing the puzzle piece blank

Turning a shape into an object

Adding some tolerance

Putting it all together

What if the Boolean modifier doesn't work?

Exporting and printing

Summary

Index