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