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Index
Getting Started With MakerBot
Preface
What Is a MakerBot?
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments for Bre Pettis
Acknowledgments for Anna Kaziunas France
Acknowledgments for Jay Shergill (MakerBlock)
1. Introduction
How Does a MakerBot Work?
The MakerBot Cupcake CNC, Thing-O-Matic, and Replicator Series
What Can a MakerBot Make?
2. The House That MakerBot Built
Make a Better Mousetrap: Inventing Things with a MakerBot
No, Really, Make a Better Mousetrap
With This Thing, I Thee…
MakerBot in the Bathroom
MakerBot in the Kitchen
Close the Door/Open the Door
Project Shellter
Your MakerBot-Enabled Closeup
Bounce Back From a Bear Attack
Moving Physical Objects into the Thingiverse
What Will You Make?
3. Growing Up with MakerBot
MakerBot Heroes
MakerBots in the Classroom
Middle School Technology Club MakerBot Build
First MakerBot Projects for Kids
4. Before You Get a MakerBot
Think About What You Will Replicate
Connect with the MakerBot Community
Become Familiar with the Necessary Software
Prepare Your Home
Prepare an Area for Your Bot
Social Implications
5. Meet the MakerBot Replicator 2
Capabilities
Facts and Figures
The Frame
The Gantry
The Extruder
The Electronics
Evolution of the MakerBot Design
6. Getting Started Printing
The LCD Panel
Leveling Your Build Platform
The Leveling Process
Loading Filament into the Extruder
Your First Prints
Making from MakerWare
Installing MakerWare
Thingiverse to Thing
Making the Object in MakerWare
Advanced Settings
Troubleshooting
Maintenance
7. Your First 10 Things to MakerBot
Hello, World
Getting a Little More Fancy
Something Tall
A Little Something for Your Bot
Multi-Part Printing, Part 1
Multi-Part Printing, Part 2
Overhangs
Your Own Personal Army
A Parametric Model
Art
You’re Ready to Create
8. Designing for the MakerBot
General Design Considerations
Equipment Capabilities
Overhangs
Water Tight
Corner Warping
Friction Fit and Moving Parts
Designing a Part to Be Dimensionally Accurate
Surface Finishing
How Large? Thinking Outside the Bot
Material Strength
Sizing and Scaling Models
3DTin
Tinkercad
Autodesk 123D
SketchUp
Exporting STL Files from SketchUp
Installing SketchUp to DXF or STL via the Command Line
Going Beyond
9. Scanning in 3D
What is 3D Scanning?
Limitations
123D Catch
123D Catch Tips
Taking Photos with 123D Catch
Uploading Your Photos to the Cloud
Downloading Your Mesh
ReconstructMe
Installing ReconstructMe
Tips for Reconstructing Yourself (Or Someone Else)
Cleaning and Repairing Scans for 3D Printing
netfabb
Autodesk MeshMixer
Meshlab
Pleasant3D
Repairing Most Scans
Repair and Clean Up in netfabb
Smoothing Out the Surface of Meshes
Removing Bumps and Blobs with MeshMixer
Final Cleanup/Repair in netfabb
Print Your Model
Repairing Relief Scans by Capping
Fixing Holes, Non-Manifold Areas and Disconnected Components
To Close Large Areas of Missing Mesh
Scan Your World
10. Becoming Part of the Thingiverse Community
What is Thingiverse?
Becoming a User of Thingiverse
User Profiles
Finding Things
Things
Uploading a Thing
Upload the First File
Enter the Details
Add Other Files to Your Thing
Add Tags and Ancestry
Publish Your Thing
Dashboard
Tips and Tricks
Use Collections
Take Good Photos
Write Good Descriptions and Instructions
Derivative Works
A. Suggested Reading and Resources
The MakerBot Manifesto
B. Glossary
C. OpenSCAD
Parametric Modeling with Solid Geometries
2D Extrusion: DXF File to 3D Model
Exporting From Inkscape Extensions
Inkscape OpenSCAD DXF Export
Inkscape to OpenSCAD Converter v2
Using pstoedit
Colophon
Copyright
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