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Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD

You're reading from   Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD Design, build, and test OpenSCAD programs to bring your ideas to life using 3D printers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813174
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Colin Dow Colin Dow
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring 3D Printing
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with 3D Printing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What Are Slicer Programs? 4. Chapter 3: Printing Our First Object 5. Part 2: Learning OpenSCAD
6. Chapter 4: Getting Started with OpenSCAD 7. Chapter 5: Using Advanced Operations of OpenSCAD 8. Chapter 6: Exploring Common OpenSCAD Libraries 9. Part 3: Projects
10. Chapter 7: Creating a 3D-Printed Name Badge 11. Chapter 8: Designing and Printing a Laptop Stand 12. Chapter 9: Designing and Printing a Model Rocket 13. Part 4: The Future
14. Chapter 10: The Future of 3D Printing and Design 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Printing our object

With our print bed leveled, filament loaded, and object sliced, it's now time to run our print job. For our example, we will be using the standard glass bed that comes with the Ender 3 V2.

Applying a glue stick to the bed

Although we could probably print directly to the glass bed, it is a good idea to apply a glue stick to assist in first-layer adhesion.

Applying a glue stick in one direction followed by the other, then waiting a few minutes between the first and second application will help create a sticky surface for our PLA, as illustrated in the following picture:

Figure 3.17 – Applying a glue stick to our print bed

Now that our print bed is ready, let's start the print job.

Running our print job

We run the print job from the microSD card. While observing the printing of the skirt, we can determine any action that needs to be taken to level the bed further. To do this, we proceed as follows:

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