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Blender 3D Printing Essentials

You're reading from   Blender 3D Printing Essentials Learn 3D printing using the free open-source Blender software. This book gives you both an overview and practical instructions, enabling you to learn how to scale, build, color, and detail a model for a 3D printer.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783284597
Length 114 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Optimizing wall thickness


Objects made with 3D printing are all subject to gravity. Failure to take this into consideration will result in objects that break or droop. We already worked a little with that in remodeling the sword, but it's time to take a more in-depth look.

The first thing to do is to find out the minimum wall thickness specifications for the material you will be printing in. You can find this information on the Web. It differs for each material. For the dragon, which will be printed in gypsum/sandstone, the minimum thickness is 2 mm for a supported wall and 3 mm for a freestanding wall.

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