A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing: 14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started
3D printers have revolutionized the worlds of manufacturing, design, and art. But how does a person with little or no computer design experience create an object to print? The best way to learn is through hands-on experience. Professional engineer Mike Rigsby leads readers step-by-step through fourteen simple toy projects, each illustrated with screen caps of Autodesk 123D Design, the most common free 3D software available. The projects are later described using Sketchup, another free popular software package.

The toy projects in A Beginner’s Guide to 3D Printing start simple—a domino, nothing more than an extruded rectangle, a rectangular block. But soon you will be creating jewel boxes with lids, a baking powder submarine, interchangeable panels for a design-it-yourself miniature house, a simple train with expandable track, a multipiece airplane, a working paddleboat, and a rubber band–powered car. Finally, you will design, print, and assemble a Little Clicker, a noise making push toy with froggy eyes. Once trained in the basics, you will be able to embark on even more elaborate designs of your own creation.

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A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing: 14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started
3D printers have revolutionized the worlds of manufacturing, design, and art. But how does a person with little or no computer design experience create an object to print? The best way to learn is through hands-on experience. Professional engineer Mike Rigsby leads readers step-by-step through fourteen simple toy projects, each illustrated with screen caps of Autodesk 123D Design, the most common free 3D software available. The projects are later described using Sketchup, another free popular software package.

The toy projects in A Beginner’s Guide to 3D Printing start simple—a domino, nothing more than an extruded rectangle, a rectangular block. But soon you will be creating jewel boxes with lids, a baking powder submarine, interchangeable panels for a design-it-yourself miniature house, a simple train with expandable track, a multipiece airplane, a working paddleboat, and a rubber band–powered car. Finally, you will design, print, and assemble a Little Clicker, a noise making push toy with froggy eyes. Once trained in the basics, you will be able to embark on even more elaborate designs of your own creation.

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A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing: 14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started

A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing: 14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started

by Mike Rigsby
A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing: 14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started

A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing: 14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started

by Mike Rigsby

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Overview

3D printers have revolutionized the worlds of manufacturing, design, and art. But how does a person with little or no computer design experience create an object to print? The best way to learn is through hands-on experience. Professional engineer Mike Rigsby leads readers step-by-step through fourteen simple toy projects, each illustrated with screen caps of Autodesk 123D Design, the most common free 3D software available. The projects are later described using Sketchup, another free popular software package.

The toy projects in A Beginner’s Guide to 3D Printing start simple—a domino, nothing more than an extruded rectangle, a rectangular block. But soon you will be creating jewel boxes with lids, a baking powder submarine, interchangeable panels for a design-it-yourself miniature house, a simple train with expandable track, a multipiece airplane, a working paddleboat, and a rubber band–powered car. Finally, you will design, print, and assemble a Little Clicker, a noise making push toy with froggy eyes. Once trained in the basics, you will be able to embark on even more elaborate designs of your own creation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781569761977
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/01/2014
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Mike Rigsby is a professional electrical engineer and author of Haywired and Doable Renewables. He has written for Popular Science, Robotics Age, Modern Electronics, Circuit Cellar, Byte, and other magazines.

Table of Contents

Getting Started v

Downloading the Software vii

1 Domino-Style Blocks 1

2 Spinning Button 5

3 Ring 19

4 Boxes and Lids 29

5 Baking Powder Submarine 53

6 Bicycle Spinner 77

7 Dollhouse 103

8 Catapult 121

9 Train 139

10 Train Track 159

11 Airplane 183

12 Paddleboat 209

13 Drum 225

14 Rubber Band Car 231

15 Little Clicker 251

Going Further 289

3D Scanners 289

Now You're on Your Own 290

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