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3D Printing Blueprints

You're reading from   3D Printing Blueprints Using the free open-source Blender software, anyone can design models for 3D printing. Fantastic fun and a great experience whether or not you have a 3D printer, this book is a crash course in the new technology.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849697088
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joe Larson Joe Larson
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

3D Printing Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Design Tools and Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Mini Mug 3. Face Illusion Vase 4. SD Card Holder Ring 5. Modular Robot Toy 6. D6 Spinner 7. Teddy Bear Figurine 8. Repairing Bad Models 9. Stretchy Bracelet 10. Measuring – Tips and Tricks Index

Shaping the body of the mug


Finishing the handle taught many operations and modifiers that will now be applied to the mug body:

  1. Begin by setting another save point (Press F2, then Numpad +, and click on Save As Blender File).

  2. Right-click to select the mug body or choose the mug body in the Outliner panel.

  3. Jump to the front view (Numpad 1) and center and zoom (Numpad .) on the mug body.

The border select operation is another way to quickly select multiple objects or, in this case, points for editing. Like the circle select tool while in wireframe mode, the border select tool selects all vertices that it surrounds, even if they're overlapping other points on the screen. The following are the steps for border select operation:

  1. Enter Edit Mode (Tab).

  2. Clear the selection (A).

  3. Select | Border Select or press B to begin the border select operation.

  4. Hold left-button on mouse and move the pointer to draw a box around the vertices at the top of the mug body.

  5. Release the left-button on mouse to end the box...

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