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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

Adjusting for the third dimension


As it is so far this is a fine gingerbread man with its stance so flat. To add some life to this model, simply adjust it in all three dimensions. And to aid in this a new view will be introduced; Quad View.

  • In the menu at the bottom of the 3D View panel select View | Toggle Quad View or press Ctrl + Alt + Q.

The utility of this view is to simultaneously view the model from many different angles. The disadvantage is that each of the views is a quarter the screen size making details hard to see.

In quad view the location of the pointer when using hot keys is more important than ever:

  1. As long as the mouse pointer is over any of the 3D views the number pad keys will only adjust the upper-right User Persp view.

  2. Using the middle-click will only free rotate the view point if the mouse pointer starts over the upper-right view and will do nothing in the other views.

  3. Zooming with the mouse wheel or the Numpad + and Numpad - keys only zooms the view that the mouse pointer...

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