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3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

You're reading from   3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle Bringing puzzles in 3 dimensions for 3D printing with Blender

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785888892
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Resizing the model

While sculpting the sun face, there was very little effort made to make the model conform to a particular size. However, this is an important consideration when building the model for 3D printing because of tolerance considerations, which will be covered in more detail later.

How big should it be?

Every 3D printer has a range of print areas that it can handle. Naturally, if designing for a particular 3D printer, this should be taken into account.

For this project, the model is going to be sized so that it will be too big for any printer to print. The smallest popular 3D printer on the market has a print bed of 120 mm squared, or about 4" on each side, so that one will be what this model will be resized for.

Scaling with properties

At the end of the previous chapter, the sculpted face was left in Object Mode. Before continuing, make sure that the project is still in Object Mode, or some later steps may get confusing.

Scaling with properties

Follow these steps to scale the model:

  1. In the Properties...
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