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Blender 3D Printing by Example

You're reading from Blender 3D Printing by Example Learn to use Blender's modeling tools for 3D printing by creating 4 projects

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788390545

Length 430 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Blender

Concepts

3D Printing

Author (1):

Vicky Somma

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Thinking about Design Requirements FREE CHAPTER

2. Using a Background Image and Bezier Curves

3. Converting a Bezier Curve to a Properly Sized 3D Mesh

4. Flattening a Torus and Boolean Union

5. Building a Base with Standard Meshes and a Mirror

6. Cutting Half Circle Holes and Modifier Management

7. Customizing with Text

8. Using Empties to Model the Base of the House

9. Mesh Modeling and Positioning the Details

10. Making Textures with the Array Modifier and Scalable Vector Graphics

11. Applying Textures with Boolean Intersection

12. Making Organic Shapes with the Subdivision Surface Modifier

13. Trial and Error – Topology Edits

14. Coloring Models with Materials and UV Maps

15. Troubleshooting and Repairing Models

Chapter 12. Making Organic Shapes with the Subdivision Surface Modifier

The projects so far have been very geometric, with precise measurements. In this next section of the book, you will work with a more fluid and artistic project. You'll learn how the Subdivision Surface Modifier can be combined with mesh modeling to make more organic shapes. In this chapter, we'll start modeling a human hand. The skills include the following:

Thinking ahead about finger placement and print overhangs
Starting the model from either a cube or a plane
Filling out the hands and fingers with Loop Cut and Slide, Extrude, and Scale
Rotating specific faces
Adding a Subdivision Surface Modifier and adjusting its View property

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Authors (1)

Vicky Somma

Vicky Somma

Vicky Somma started 3D printing her Blender designs in 2014, empowered by the 3D Printing Service Bureau, Shapeways, a full year before owning her own 3D printer. In November 2014, she was named one of the winners of the White House 3D Printed Ornament Design Contest. Her ornament, designed in Blender and inspired by the Library of Congress, hung in the East Wing of the White House and is now part of a Smithsonian Collection. For the 2015 and 2016 Holiday Seasons, she had Blender-designed 3D printed ornaments hanging in the Virginia Executive Mansion. In addition to Blender, Vicky also designs OpenSCAD. She prints on a MakerGear M2 and a Wanhao Duplicator i3 to make a line of designs that she sells at craft shows and Etsy. She teaches TinkerCad and 3D printing classes for local librarians. She maintains a 3D printing blog and makes regular appearances on the Friday 3D Printing Community Hangouts (#F3DPCH). Vicky's 3D printed Blender designs have been featured on NBC's TODAY, CBSNews, the Washington Post, Michelle Obama's Instagram, and websites such as 3DPrint, 3DPrintingIndustry, and 3Ders. Her designs have been highlighted by Thingiverse, Simplify3D, and Shapeways.

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