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3D Printing Designs: Octopus Pencil Holder
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Table of Contents
3D Printing Designs: Octopus Pencil 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. The Octopus Pencil Holder
Planning the project
The first basic shape
Smoothing the mesh with modifiers
Bending the tentacles
Flattening the bottom
Renaming objects
Adding a pencil cup
Adding a face
Finishing touches
Summary
Index
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3D Printing Designs: Octopus Pencil Holder
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First published: February 2016
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Author
Joe Larson
Reviewer
Marcus Ritland
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Joe Larson is one part artist, one part mathematician, one part teacher, and one part technologist. It all started in his youth when he worked 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 temporarily pursued a degree in computer animation. He abandoned this field 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 to 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 ...
