Design for 3D Printing with Blender - 2023

Master Blender basics for design for 3d printing: navigate a project with camera, cube, and light; delete, move, rotate, scale, add meshes, and edit in object and edit modes.

Design a custom organizer in Blender for 3D printing, learn to set millimeter units, create holes with boolean modifiers, add and extrude 3D text, and export as STL for slicing.

Explore Blender's features through a progression from simple designs to more complex models, learning to combine meshes, sculpt, and create practical items like a vacuum adapter and phone stand.

Design a simple phone stand in Blender by setting millimeter units, building a base, using a boolean cut for the slot, and exporting an STL for 3D printing.

Design a bag clip in Blender by modeling a two-millimeter thick, mirrored mesh, using millimeter units, extruding vertices, beveling edges, and applying a mirror modifier for a printable, flexible clip.

Design the cable organizer in Blender for 3D printing by creating a 100x100 mm plane, applying a subdivision modifier, insetting faces, extruding to 100 mm, and exporting.

Design a precise vacuum nozzle in Blender for 3D printing. Set millimeter units, use the Measure It addon for accurate taper and inner diameter, and apply the solidify modifier.

Learn to create a meme mashup in blender by combining benji with an elon musk head using boolean operations, remesh sculpting, and exporting an stl for 3d printing.

Design a castle-styled dice tower in blender for 3d printing. Use subdivision surface, sculpting, remesh, and boolean operations to hollow the interior and export as a stl.

Learn to use the bevel tool in edit mode with edge selection to create rounded edges, adjust the profile and presets, and add segments to generate stairs for 3d printing.

Explore the loop cut tool in edit mode with control r to create multiple segments, adjust topology with proportional editing, and easily extrude a region of a cube.

Learn to manually edit a mesh in Blender edit mode by deleting faces, edges, and vertices. Fill holes with F, duplicate vertices with Shift+D, and watch normals when editing.

Design for 3D printing with Blender teaches how print orientation affects part strength, highlighting that layers aren’t perfectly fused and a part laid flat in the slicer becomes much stronger.

Celebrate completing this course and reflect on what you learned. Ask questions to continue your learning and pursue your future projects and endeavors.