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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

Smoothing the rough edges


Blender provides a number of object modifiers that can be used to quickly alter objects in the scene. In this project only two modifiers, namely Multiresolution and Boolean, will be used. Modifiers can be stacked, turned on and off, and their settings can be changed on the fly. The modifiers are accessed in their own menu in the right-hand side bar.

Begin with an incremental save (Press F2, then Numpad +, and click on Save As Blender File) to set a save point. Then carry out the following steps to create a new modifier:

  1. In the right-hand side bar, click on the icon that looks like a wrench to open up the modifier tab.

  2. Click on the Add Modifier button.

  3. Select from the second column (Generate) the Multiresolution modifier from the menu.

  4. In the Multiresolution options box click on the Subdivide button twice.

Multiresolution smoothes the mesh out by adding more vertices between existing vertices and putting them in a location that rounds the shape. In this case the final...

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