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I am new to the world of 3D printing. So in this guest article, you'll hear from expert 3D printer/designer Marcus Ritland from Denali 3D Design. He shares some tips to help you create amazing 3D printed models by designing them in Sketchup. 3D Printing 3D printing is awesome - we can all agree on that. You send a 3D computer model to a machine and out comes a finished part, ready to use as an end product or as a prototype before mass manufacturing. With the rise of personal 3D printers like the Makerbot Replicator 2, and 3D print services like Shapeways and Ponoko, nearly everyone has access to this technology. But how does one get started making awesome models for 3D printing? Its one thing to make a model look good on the screen, but quite another to make a model that looks good and actually works in real life. The process of modeling for 3D printing is much the same as 3D modeling anything else, but with a few specific requirements. Here are some common problems that I see beginners struggling with and how to address them. Tips for modeling in Sketchup Make your model “Solid” in Sketchup to be 3D Printable Models must be “Solid” to be 3D printable. This is by far the most common problem beginners have when modeling for 3D printing. Here are some examples of Solid Sketchup models. Solid, sometimes called “watertight” or “manifold” simply means the model is a complete enclosure. If you were to fill it with water, none would drain out, and the model must not have any extra lines or faces. If you make your object into a group or component, Sketchup will indicate when its solid in the Entity Info dialog box (Window > Entity Info). Another way to define solid: Every edge in your model must be bordered by exactly two faces. If an edge has less than two faces bordering it, there is an adjacent hole, and if there are more than two faces touching an edge, there is an extra face that needs to be deleted. The most common errors (and the corresponding solutions) are: Stray edges (just delete them) Holes (trace an edge to fill them) Internal faces (delete them)
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This Sketchup Instructional Handout covers: * Groups and Components (detailed info) * Coloring and Filling 2D and 3D Objects * Cut, copy and pasting objects * Saving and Exporting Files Included with this is complete step-by-step detailed descripton of each of the above. *This guide will be very informative for your students as they are learning how to use the above tools. They can refer to it time and time again if they forget. *CTE teachers will find this an invaluable handout to use, too; e.g. when using Sketchup and 3D printing together. Included in this informative 3 1/2 page handout are a couple of screenshots to help you understand the material.
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Build a Giant 3D Printed Robot Arm: Have you ever wanted to build a giant, 6-axis, mostly-3D-printed robot arm? Well, this Instructable will show you how to do exactly that. Using a large collection of 3D printed parts, stepper motors, a 3D printer control board, a power supply, and a…
Wouldn't it be great to have a single image, that encapsulated a tonne of handy 3D printing tips and information to hang on the wall behind your 3D Printer? Well, we agree so much so that we've gone ahead and created this infographic/cheat sheet hybrid that jams as much information as possible in. Below shows the updated image. At the bottom of this article is the original first iteration of this Poster talked about in the video. Download the full A3 Version here. Download the full A3 Version here. At the top of the page, I've essentially included all of my favourite bookmarks and links around the web to different 3D Printing information and guides. There are TinyURLs that take you directly where you need to go attached to each link. Below is a list of these Popular Guides. -3D Print Workshop-Filament Guide-Printing Perfect First Layers-Improving 3D Printed Models-Cura Overview There is then a side view of a 3D print that points out the different features of a 3D print from a slicer settings perspective. Below that, I've made a quick reference breakdown of how the G-Code tool path is represented inside Cura's G-Code view. At the bottom of the page, I've made a small grid-style table of the bed and nozzle temperatures required for most of the common filament types, which can be handy when you are swapping between filament types in Cura's advanced settings. The E-steps table is a bit of strange addition (see it in the bottom Cheat Sheet), and I can definitely see it being used by anyone with a LulzBot 3D Printer and more than the single tool head. As part of the installation process of a new tool head, you need to record the E-steps of the new tool head (which are written on the rear of the tool head). This little table will allow you to have a permanent place to note down those values, so you never need to look them up again. On the top of the poster, there are 6 images of different calibration/test prints that can be used to test out certain phenomena of 3D printing and really learn the way your printer is behaving under certain conditions. And finally, at the bottom of this page, there is a TinyURL that links directly to a ZIP file containing all of the STL models for those test prints. A Finishing Note... All in all, 3D printing is such an enormous field that even with limiting myself to FDM printing only there is still a tonne of information that could have been included on this cheat sheet. If you've got any ideas or additions you'd like to see make the cut please let us know! Below is the original First iteration of the practical printing Cheat Sheet. Attachment - Practical-printing-cheat-sheets.zip
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Hello everyone, Just a quick update to say the design files, source files and other info are now (finally) up on Youmagine (and GitHub) - Yay! Yet another 'FreeD' RepRap Printer for you to play with :) Sli3DR, originally discussed here, (wow! was that really back in July, sorry for the delay, time is going fast) - files are now posted up on Youmagine Here Do also take a look at the images on Youmagine to see how to build one, most of the fittings are M3 and M4. You will need some 20mm Alu extrusions - (sizes on Youmagine) and some M4 V groove bearings (eBay) I have added Repetier Firmware for it up on my GitHub here It's also as a RAR archive on the Sli3DR Youmagine page Firmware is setup and running for RAMPS 1.4 You can configure Repetier Firmware for other Hardware using the fancy online tool here - Load the Config.json file. This time, I didn't do a Marlin release for it, if you make one, let me know or just share it. I hope you build one, the print results I have had from it are outstanding. 0.2mm Layers - Really great Z -layer registration - finally as good as my Delta's - My quest for the perfect Cartesian Z axis is complete... for now. ******************************************************************************** Sli3DR_MAR2014_REV3_012_Final_machine_build. License, project and contact info - This Design is part of the RichRap Sli3DR 3D Printer (A RepRap project) Thank you for downloading, please be aware and abide by the license all these files. The RichRap Sli3DR 3D Printer uses an Attribution - ShareAlike Creative Commons V3 (CC BY-SA 3.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ This License is not greatly restrictive at all, so please don't forget to attribute my work and acknowledge. If you decide to print and sell these or make further changes, improvements or additions, that's great! I want you to do that ! I hope this work has been of some use to you, if you wish to say hello or donate towards further developments please see my Blog here - www.richrap.blogspot.com Many thanks - Richard Horne (RichRap) Please feel free to contact me. My website - www.richrap.com Catch me on Twitter @RichRap3D Watch me on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/RichRap2011 Google+ https://plus.google.com/+RichardHorne_RichRap3D/about Please see www.reprap.org for information about the RepRap Project. Please visit the RepRap forum - http://forums.reprap.org/ These files were originally shared on - https://www.youmagine.com/ Please support this growing and open community. Sli3DR What? - Reminder what Sli3DR is - Sli3DR - (pronounced Slider) Sli3DR is not a Delta based printer, rather it's based on an intriguing 'unnamed mechanism' that was floating around on the RepRap Forum and G+ last year. Billy ZelsnackIdentified it as used in a very old (Rikadenki) Pen Plotter design here. A few people have tried it out for 3D printing using off the shelf mechanical parts, I wanted to make it with 3D printed parts and Spectra Line based on this mechanism. Edit - This bit's updated for correct back credit of bringing the mechanism to the attention of the RepRap and 3D printing community - David Moorhouse over on G+ showed a cable bot design 1st November 2013, see here -https://plus.google.com/104904818050178236499/posts/WpzzVuULM2z David's original video sparked great discussion over the mechanism, Tim Rastall Made a great sketch of the 'unnamed mechanism' - still unnamed as far as I know. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-753_E-QeVmo/UlYKlAfRqGI/AAAAAAAAIEg/Ki-oSosqbEU/w471-h514-no/Unna... Find out more about David's build over here - http://astro.smugmug.com/Hobbies/3D-Printer-Cablebot/ It just needs a door and it's complete. Spectra Line - Fantastic stuff. All the essential 3D printed parts Designed for an E3D V5/6 hot-end Hopefully the 3D model of the entire machine in Sketchup will help you understand it, if you decide to build one questions are best asked over on the Youmagine Sli3DR comments page here Happy Building, and as always let me know if you build one... or thousands. And a quick grumble about backing up files - I had a hard drive crash last night, and like all disasters with computers it wasted a lot of time trying to restore things. I'm not yet sure how much was lost, most was backed up, but the last 3 months - not so much. I do already know I lost half of the 3DRnano V2 design I was working on a few months back. That caused much swearing and grumpy kicking of things. Instead of getting too annoyed, I managed to finally release Sli3DR, so at least that's made me happy again. - If you do nothing else tonight, back up your projects to a memory stick, or on-line. I will be releasing 3DRmega next, (as soon as possible) stay tuned. Back soon. Cheers, Rich
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