Buy and Download - Digital Tutors Bringing Your Designs to Life with 3D Printing in Blender

2014
Digital Tutors
Apollo Spiliotis
03:30:00
English

Throughout this Blender tutorial we'll explore some amazing tools & workflows that will prove essential to you as you start out on your 3D printing quest. 3D printing is increasingly becoming a part of daily life, sparking a creative and manufacturing revolution, as it's finally more accessible to artists and amateur users through affordable desktop printers and services like Shapeways. That is also known as "additive manufacturing," and is essentially the blending of technology, science and art, with the ability to transform a number of industries including toys, fashion, medicine, electronics and automotive. 3D printing is essentially a magical process where a machine reminiscent of the Star Trek Replicator seems to create three-dimensional objects out of thin air. We'll go through the basic printing methods & materials, go over some free 3D modeling apps including Tinkercad and Blender, cover methods of working with polygon geometry to prepare our models, as well as cool techniques to lower the printing cost. We'll then upload the optimized models to Shapeways, the world's leading 3D Printing marketplace and community, for final checks before sending them to the printers. Though the videos will mostly focus on using Blender, the concepts apply to any 3D application of your choice. By the end of this Blender training you’ll have learned the fundamental workflows of preparing and optimizing your 3D models for any type of 3D printer.

01. Introduction and project overview
02. Introduction to 3D printing
03. Shapeways crash course
04. Understanding 3D printable materials
05. Shapeways guidelines and limitations
06. Free 3D printing applications
07. Quick modeling with Tinkercad
08. Modeling, grouping and exporting from Tinkercad
09. Setting up a Blender scene for 3D printing
10. Applying object transformations in Blender
11. Hollowing simple objects & creating escape holes
12. Creating wirefame structures from solid models
13. Simple real-world measurements in Blender
14. The importance of manifold geometry
15. Repairing non-manifold objects
16. The 3D printing toolbox
17. Interactive mesh analysis & repair
18. Advanced hollowing techniques for organic objects
19. Exporting for 3D printing
20. Converting and simplifying models in Meshlab
21. Repairing and slicing models in Netfabb
22. Publishing designs to Shapeways
23. Setting up a shop on Shapeways

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