Bringing Your Designs to Life with 3D Printing in Blender

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Throughout this Blender tutorial we'll explore some amazing tools and workflows that will prove essential to you as you start out on your 3D printing quest. Software required: Blender 2.71, Tinkercad.com, Meshlab 1.3.3, netfabb Basic 5.1.1, Shapeways.com.

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Course Description

Throughout this Blender tutorial we'll explore some amazing tools and workflows that will prove essential to you as you start out on your 3D printing quest. We'll go through the basic printing methods and materials, and we'll also go over free 3D-modeling apps including Tinkercad and Blender. We'll 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. Software required: Blender 2.71, Tinkercad.com, Meshlab 1.3.3, netfabb Basic 5.1.1, Shapeways.com.

Course Description

Throughout this Blender tutorial we'll explore some amazing tools and workflows that will prove essential to you as you start out on your 3D printing quest. We'll go through the basic printing methods and materials, and we'll also go over free 3D-modeling apps including Tinkercad and Blender. We'll 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. Software required: Blender 2.71, Tinkercad.com, Meshlab 1.3.3, netfabb Basic 5.1.1, Shapeways.com.

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Course Syllabus

Introduction and Project Overview
- 1m 6s

—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 6s

Bringing Your Designs to Life with 3D Printing in Blender
- 3h 22m

—Introduction to 3D Printing 5m 1s
—Shapeways Crash Course 4m 41s
—Understanding 3D Printable Materials 6m 21s
—Shapeways Guidelines and Limitations 5m 29s
—Free 3D Printing Applications 3m 58s
—Quick Modeling with Tinkercad 9m 58s
—Modeling, Grouping, and Exporting from Tinkercad 7m 28s
—Setting up a Blender Scene for 3D Printing 6m 0s
—Applying Object Transformations in Blender 8m 56s
—Hollowing Simple Objects and Creating Escape Holes 11m 2s
—Creating Wirefame Structures from Solid Models 10m 51s
—Simple Real-world Measurements in Blender 9m 7s
—The Importance of Manifold Geometry 10m 21s
—Repairing Non-manifold Objects 11m 41s
—The 3D Printing Toolbox 9m 15s
—Interactive Mesh Analysis and Repair 10m 24s
—Advanced Hollowing Techniques for Organic Objects 15m 30s
—Exporting for 3D Printing 13m 29s
—Converting and Simplifying Models in Meshlab 7m 8s
—Repairing and Slicing Models in netfabb 12m 36s
—Publishing Designs to Shapeways 14m 19s
—Setting up a Shop on Shapeways 9m 4s