They must keep in mind the particular needs of the materials and printers that they are planning to use to print their model. The model maker must engineer their model to work in the real world. 3D printing demands more of a modeler than animation or virtual reality.

Now, prices have dropped and third-party printing services such as Shapeways have become available, making the technology available to everyone.īlender is an open source modeling and animation program popular in the 3D printing community. Like computing, 3D printing has been around for decades but it was expensive and was only used for making complex prototypes.

Consider requirements unique to 3D printing such as structural integrity and stability.

Master Blender’s special 3D printing tools to maximize print quality and minimize cost.

Design beautiful, colourful, and practical objects in Blender to print or export.

This book gives you both an overview and practical instructions, enabling you to learn how to scale, build, color, and detail a model for a 3D printer. Learn 3D printing using the free open-source Blender software.

Blender software for 3d printing