Blender 3D Printing Essentials by 2013

Author:2013
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Packt Publishing

What is special about 3D printing?

Blender has always been able to make models suitable for 3D printing. But starting with Blender 2.67, they included two new tools that make it much easier, the Mesh Analysis panel and the 3D Print Toolbox panel. We'll look at both of them and then use them to make sure our model is fit for 3D printing.

Installing the Print3D toolbox

The Print 3D Toolbox panel is an add-on to Blender. The first thing you need to do is install it and perform the following steps:

Open up Blender or select File | New | Reload Start-up File, or press Ctrl + N.

Open up the User Preferences panel, either by selecting File | User Preferences... or by pressing Ctrl + Alt + U.

In the pop-up window, select Addons from the menu at the top.

When the Addons menu page appears, there are two sets of menus, as seen in the following screenshot, one on the left and one on the right. Select the Mesh button at the lower-left corner:

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