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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Design beautiful, colourful, and practical objects in Blender to print or export
Master Blender's special 3D printing tools to maximize print quality and minimize cost
Consider requirements unique to 3D printing such as structural integrity and stability

Description

Like computing, 3D printing has been around for decades but it was expensive and was only used for making complex prototypes. Now, prices have dropped and third-party printing services such as Shapeways have become available, making the technology available to everyone.Blender is an open source modeling and animation program popular in the 3D printing community. 3D printing demands more of a modeler than animation or virtual reality. The model maker must engineer their model to work in the real world. They must keep in mind the particular needs of the materials and printers that they are planning to use to print their model. This practical guide gives Blender users all the information they need to design high-quality 3D printed objects. With a solid exploration of the 3D modeling process, design considerations for 3D printing, plus step-by-step exercises, you will soon be comfortable making 3D objects for real-world enjoyment. Starting with an overview of 3D printing, this guide moves onto to precision measurement, fixing problems in a 3D model, and how to make it light and strong enough for real-world use.You will learn how to scale, build, and detail a model for a 3D printer. You will learn to color and decorate it, as well as making parts precisely in the size you want them, so that multi-part objects fit together smoothly. You will also learn tips on saving money when you have printed your model.With the help of this guide, you will be able to complete your project and learn how to export the file so it is ready for a variety of 3D printers.

Who is this book for?

If you are a Blender user or someone who wants to use Blender to make 3D objects suitable for 3D printing, this book is ideal for you. You should already be comfortable with basic modeling in Blender - including using modifiers - although advanced skills are not required. All of the models that you will need are explored in-depth. This book does not assume that you will use any specific printer and teaches the general principles common to building models for most printers. It also gives you tips on discovering the requirements of the specific printer you will be using.

What you will learn

Understand how a 3D printer makes a 3D object
Get an introduction to different types of 3D printers
Explore the materials that can be used in a 3D printer
Get to grips with precision modeling techniques in Blender
Use Blender s Ruler/Protractor tool
Unwrap a texture to fit a model
Make a model watertight and manifold
Design an object hollow using the Solidify modifier
Export to STL and X3D files for printing

Product Details

Publication date, Length, Edition, Language, ISBN-13

Publication date : Nov 21, 2013

Length: 114 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781783284603

Vendor :

Blender Foundation

Category :

Business & Other

Languages :

C++

Concepts :

3D Printing

Tools :

Blender

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BurtB Aug 07, 2014

Helpful for fine tuning models for 3d printing.

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couilleaux g. Jul 25, 2019

produit de qualité et conforme

andrzej gracki Dec 14, 2013

This book leads step by step through the process of preparing models for 3D printing.Apart from the first chapters which introduce the 3d printing in general, rest of the book concentrate of specific aspectsof preparing models to be correctly 3d printed.Following the simple samples, focusing on tasks will teach you how to use Blender to export models ready to 3d PrintingThe books takes the simple models and show how to check it in terms of preparation for 3D printing.After this should not be a problem to prepare the more complex models.I have find it useful since most of my modelling job concentrating on product visualisation, rendering. I don't even thinkabout terms like watertight or manifolds.Chapter 3 explains these topics and highlights the other possible problems in the modelling.You will also learn how to use other handy tools (Ruler/Protractor)I consider myself an advanced Blender user but I learned some new things from this book.I think that this book might be helpful not only for amateurs who want to have fun with 3D printing but also Blenderprofessionals.Especially now, when I often meet with clients who want to have a prototype models ready for 3D printing

Othman Dec 29, 2013

The best choice for home 3d printing. It starts with a long introduction about 3d printing and types of 3d printers then it starts teaching you how to print without facing common problems.

Ann Dec 22, 2013

The book begins by explaining the many different types of 3D printers. Chapter Two discusses using Blender's Ruler/Protractor tool to keep the model within range of the printer's bed. Chapter 3 prepares the dragon for 3D printing. The author invites the reader to inspect the model using the Mesh Analysis tool to find distorted faces and intersecting polygons which can make holes in sculptures. The author discusses how to reduce printing costs as he guides the reader into making the dragon both light and strong and uses the solidify modifier to make sure the inner wall doesn't penetrate the outer wall. He uses the 3D tool box to inspect for manifold edges to produce a better quality sculpture and discusses the differences between different export files STL and X3D. The author guides the reader using the Boolean modifier to make a pencil cup as seen on the book's cover.

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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