3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder E-Book

Joe Larson

• Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 84

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Learn how to design 3D-printed objects that work in the real world

About This Book

• This book shows you how to design from a reference to physical objects that can be easily represented by simple basic objects in Blender (cube, cylinder, sphere, and so on) by measuring them
• This is the only book on the market that shows you how to take your first steps to create 3D printed objects that are able to interact with existing objects
• Learn how to utilize Blender's functionality to make your designs more precise and accurate

Who This Book Is For

Reader will have basic knowledge of Blender and 3D Printing, and will have probably already made something simple. They will be interested in printing their first object.

What You Will Learn

• Gain techniques to accurately measure the objects with rules, manual calipers, and digital calipers
• Break down complex geometries into multiple simple shapes and model them in layers using Blender
• Scale and re-scale a model to fit based on volume or size constraints
• See how to multishell geometries and auto-intersections using the Boolean Modifier

In Detail

Want to model a 3D printed prototype of an object that needs to be replaced or broken? This book will teach you how to accurately measure objects in the real world with a few basic measuring techniques and how to create an object for 3D printing around the objects measured.

In this book, you'll learn to identify basic shapes from a given object, use Vernier and Digital calipers and grid paper tracing techniques to derive measurements for the objects. With the help of measurements, you'll see to model these objects using Blender, organize the parts into layers, and later combine them to create the desired object, which in this book is a 3D printable SD card holder ring that fits your finger.

Style and approach

This book will be an easy-to-follow guide to learn the methods of scaling, precise measurements, and accurate designing. Using a step-by-step approach, this book will guide you on your journey to model different parts of a complex object and later combine them to create 3D printed objects that work in the real world.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. 3D Printing Basics

What is 3D printing?

What defines 3D printing?

What to design for?

How do FFF printers work?

The anatomy of a print

FFF design considerations

Overhangs and supports

Supportless 3D printing

Y – gentle overhangs

H – bridging

T – orientation

Wall thickness

Holes in models

Summary

2. Beginning Blender

Why Blender?

The price is right

Blender is comprehensive

It's getting better all the time

But Blender isn't perfect

Downloading and installing Blender

The default view

The 3D View

The 3D cursor

The best settings

A scroll-wheel mouse and number pad

A laptop with a touch pad and no number pad

Object creation

Navigating the view

Jumping to rotation

Panning the view

Zooming the view

Orthographic versus perspective view

Wireframe and solid view

Transforming the object

Controlling transformations

Controlling the view

Axis locking

Precise transformation

Origin manipulation

Duplicating objects

Object selection

Shift select

Border select

Circle select

The Edit mode

Parts of objects

Incremental saving

Blender to real life

Exporting an STL

Summary

3. Measuring Basics

Measuring with a ruler

Measuring with calipers

Manual or Vernier calipers

Digital calipers

Grid paper trace method

Suitable objects

Object preparation

Importing the image into Blender

Increasing reference pictures

3D scanning

Summary

4. An SD Card Holder Ring

Taking measurements

Modeling the ring

Modeling the finger

Putting the ring on the floor

Finishing the ring

Making a test print

Resizing the test ring

Adding an SD card holder

Organizing by layers

Creating a virtual SD card

Putting it all together

Extra credit

Summary

Index

3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

3D Printing Designs: Design an SD Card Holder

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Credits

Author

Joe Larson

Reviewer

Marcus Ritland

Commissioning Editor

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About the Author

Joe Larson is one part artist, one part mathematician, one part teacher, and one part technologist. It all started in his youth on a Commodore 64 doing BASIC programming and low resolution digital art. As technology progressed, so did Joe's dabbling, eventually taking him to 3D modeling while in high school and college, and he momentarily pursued a degree in Computer Animation. He abandoned the track for the much more sensible goal of becoming a math teacher, which he accomplished when he taught 7th grade math in Colorado. He now works as an application programmer.

When Joe first heard about 3D printing, it took root in his mind and he went back to dust off his 3D modeling skills. In 2012, he won a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer in the Tinkercad/Makerbot Chess challenge with a chess set that assembles into a robot. Since then, his designs on Thingiverse have been featured on Thingiverse, Gizmodo, Shapeways, Makezine, and other places. He currently maintains the blog http://joesmakerbot.blogspot.in/, documenting his adventures.

About the Reviewer

Marcus Ritland is a designer and 3D printing consultant at his small business, Denali 3D Design. Since 2008, he has provided 3D modeling and 3D printing services, as well as moderating the SketchUcation 3D printing forum.

He has volunteered at a local makerspace, teaching SketchUp classes and leading 3D printing meetups. As an author of 3D Printing with SketchUp, he is currently on a quest to eliminate design-for-3D printing illiteracy.

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Preface

3D printing makes virtual things real, and sometimes, those things need to match back up to an object in the real world. So, it is often very important that accurate measurements be made when planning and then be applied to the modeling of a 3D object. While most people don't consider Blender up to the task, it is actually capable of modeling objects with CAD-like precision. This book will get you up to speed on using Blender, then give you a project to follow along with in order to teach you the techniques to make objects that satisfy a measured precision.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, 3D Printing Basics, will help you understand 3D printing basics, types of 3D printing, and how FFF printers work.

Chapter 2, Beginning Blender, will introduce Blender, how to set it up, and some basic and mid-level functionality. Knowing the content of this chapter will get you over Blender's famous learning curve and provide the basic knowledge and reference necessary for following along with future projects.

Chapter 3, Measuring Basics, mentions how it is very important that accurate measurements must be made when planning and applied to the modeling of a 3D object. In this chapter, we deal with different techniques of taking measurements: measuring with a ruler or calipers, the grid paper trace method, and 3D scanning.

Chapter 4, An SD Card Holder Ring, walks you through the process of making a cool 3D printed project—an SD card holder.

What you need for this book

A computer with at least a 2-GHz CPU, 2 GB of RAM, and, of course, Blender.

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone with an interest in home 3D printing and a desire to learn the basics of design and the tools to make their ideas a reality.

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