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    3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle
    3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle
    3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle
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    3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

    By Larson Joe

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    About this ebook

    Create a fascinating 3D printing-ready puzzle in no time!

    About This Book
    • Learn how to design a 3D printable model from an existing physical object
    • Rekindle your mathematical mind to design perfectly interlocking complex pieces of a puzzle
    • Personalize the puzzle's design with a photo or shape of your own choice
    Who This Book Is For

    The book is meant for fairly advanced 3D printing designers who know their way around Blender, and know how to print out basic shapes.

    What You Will Learn
    • Design, manipulate, and export 3D models for 3D printing with Blender
    • Master the art from creating meshes, scaling, subdivision, and adding detail with the Boolean modifier to sculpting a custom shape
    • Cut a model into small pieces and learn to design complex interlocking joints
    In Detail

    Jigsaw puzzles derive their name from when they were cut from wood sheets using a hand-woodworking tool called a jig saw back in the 1760s. Have you ever wondered how a model idea for a jigsaw puzzle is articulated, and how it was made with these traditional tools?

    Through this book, you will master the techniques of designing simple to complex puzzles models for 3D printing. We will quickly introduce you to some simple and effective principles of designing 3D printed objects using Blender. Through the course of the book, you'll explore various robust sculpting methods supported by Blender that allow you to edit objects with actions such as bends or curves, similar to drawing or building up a clay structure of different shapes and sizes.

    Finally, when the model is sculpted, you'll learn some methods to cut the model and carve out multiple pieces of perfectly-fitting edges of different geometries to complete the puzzle.

    Style and approach

    This practical guide explores the union of 3D printing techniques and working with Blender to create intuitive puzzle designs. With a step-by-step approach, you'll learn to use Blender's shape editing tools to make a basic puzzle shape and combine that with the sculpted model to create the final piece for 3D printing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJun 20, 2016
    ISBN9781785885358
    3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

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      Book preview

      3D Printing Designs - Larson Joe

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      Table of Contents

      3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

      eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      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

      Rotating 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. Sculpting the Face of the Sun

      Creating the base object

      Setting up sculpt

      Drawing the face

      Smoothing the edges

      Adding the nose and eyes

      Pulling out the rays

      Sharpening the details

      Summary

      4. Cutting a 3D Jigsaw Puzzle

      Resizing the model

      How big should it be?

      Scaling with properties

      Building a puzzle piece

      Building the basic shape

      Sizing the puzzle piece blank

      Turning a shape into an object

      Adding some tolerance

      Putting it all together

      What if the Boolean modifier doesn't work?

      Exporting and printing

      Summary

      Index

      3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

      3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

      Copyright © 2016 Packt Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

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      First published: June 2016

      Production reference: 1140616

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      Credits

      Author

      Joe Larson

      Reviewer

      Marcus Ritland

      Commissioning Editor

      Edward Gordon

      Acquisition Editor

      Vinay Argekar

      Content Development Editor

      Shweta Pant

      Technical Editor

      Vishal K. Mewada

      Copy Editor

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      Project Coordinator

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      Proofreader

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      Indexer

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      Graphics

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      Production Coordinator

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Joe Larson, known online as the 3D Printing Professor, is one part artist, one part mathematician, one part teacher, and one part technologist. It all started in his youth, doing BASIC programming and low-resolution digital art on a Commodore 64. 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 that and instead became a math teacher, and then moved to software development for 10 years before returning to education, teaching technology in college.

      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 produces weekly videos about design for 3D printing on his YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/mrjoesays.

      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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