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Blender 3D Printing by Example

You're reading from   Blender 3D Printing by Example Learn to use Blender's modeling tools for 3D printing by creating 4 projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788390545
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vicky Somma Vicky Somma
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Preface 1. Thinking about Design Requirements 2. Using a Background Image and Bezier Curves FREE CHAPTER 3. Converting a Bezier Curve to a Properly Sized 3D Mesh 4. Flattening a Torus and Boolean Union 5. Building a Base with Standard Meshes and a Mirror 6. Cutting Half Circle Holes and Modifier Management 7. Customizing with Text 8. Using Empties to Model the Base of the House 9. Mesh Modeling and Positioning the Details 10. Making Textures with the Array Modifier and Scalable Vector Graphics 11. Applying Textures with Boolean Intersection 12. Making Organic Shapes with the Subdivision Surface Modifier 13. Trial and Error – Topology Edits 14. Coloring Models with Materials and UV Maps 15. Troubleshooting and Repairing Models

Giving the torus a flat bottom (for home)

Naturally, the torus object is rounded, which does give a nice look and feel to the pendant's hook. However, the rounded nature of the bottom may be tricky for the FFF/FDM printers. Looking at the slicing preview from the bottom up, I can see that perhaps there are some tricky overhangs for the printer.

In the following preview, I can see some places where lines of plastic would have nothing underneath it:

How our torus looks in Blender and how it looks in the slicing preview (looking from the bottom up).

Since no one sees the back of the pendant, we can flatten the bottom of that torus to help the printer out. To do that, we'll be getting more familiar with a technique called mesh modeling. We will change the shape of the torus by editing specific vertices.

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