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Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD

You're reading from   Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD Design, build, and test OpenSCAD programs to bring your ideas to life using 3D printers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813174
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Colin Dow Colin Dow
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring 3D Printing
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with 3D Printing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What Are Slicer Programs? 4. Chapter 3: Printing Our First Object 5. Part 2: Learning OpenSCAD
6. Chapter 4: Getting Started with OpenSCAD 7. Chapter 5: Using Advanced Operations of OpenSCAD 8. Chapter 6: Exploring Common OpenSCAD Libraries 9. Part 3: Projects
10. Chapter 7: Creating a 3D-Printed Name Badge 11. Chapter 8: Designing and Printing a Laptop Stand 12. Chapter 9: Designing and Printing a Model Rocket 13. Part 4: The Future
14. Chapter 10: The Future of 3D Printing and Design 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Printing out our laptop stand

We will require two frames, four rods, four M10 nylon cap nuts, and 4 M3 10 mm bolts to build our laptop stand. We will 3D print the frames and rods. The rods will be held together with the M3 10 mm bolts.

Slicing and printing the frame

We will start by printing the left side of the frame. We will then mirror the frame in Cura and print it again. Let's begin:

  1. Open up Cura and select Generic PLA, 0.4mm Nozzle:

Figure 8.22 – Generic PLA template

  1. If prompted with Discard or Keep changes, click on the Discard changes button.
  2. Under Print Settings | Build Plate Adhesion, set Build Plate Adhesion Type to None.
  3. Click on File | Open File(s)... and select the frame_left.stl file created in the Designing the frame in Inkscape and OpenSCAD section.
  4. Using the Rotate and Move tools, position the frame so that it fits onto the bed. The frame will need to be flipped over so that the countersinks...
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