{"id":432,"date":"2013-10-03T00:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T19:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/emorgan\/?p=432"},"modified":"2014-04-15T20:46:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:46:47","slug":"3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/2013\/10\/3d-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D printing in the Center For Digital Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“my” library<\/p><\/div>This is the tiniest of blog postings outlining my experiences with 3-D printing.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Libraries purchased a 3-D printer — a MakerBot<\/a> Replicator 2X — and it arrived here in the Center For Digital Scholarship<\/a> late last week. It can print things to sizes just smaller than a bread box — not very big. To make it go one feeds it a special file which moves — drives — a horizontal platform as well as a movable nozzle dispensing melted plastic. The “special file” is something only MakerBot understands, I think. But the process is more generalized than that. Ideally one would:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. use a CAD program to model a 3-D object<\/li>\n
  2. convert the resulting CAD file to a MakerBot file<\/li>\n
  3. print<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nAlternatively, a person can:\n<\/p>\n

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    1. visit Thingiverse<\/a> <\/li>\n
    2. download one of their thousands of files<\/li>\n
    3. convert the file to a MakerBot file<\/li>\n
    4. print<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \nAnother choice is to:\n<\/p>\n

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      1. visit TinkerCAD<\/a> <\/li>\n
      2. use their online software to design a model<\/li>\n
      3. download the resulting file<\/li>\n
      4. convert the file to a MakerBot file<\/li>\n
      5. print<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \nYet another choice is to:\n<\/p>\n

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        1. obtain 123D Catch<\/a> for your iPhone <\/li>\n
        2. use it to take many photographs of an object<\/li>\n
        3. edit and clean-up the resulting 3-D image with 123D Catch online<\/li>\n
        4. download the resulting file<\/li>\n
        5. convert the file to a MakerBot file<\/li>\n
        6. print<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \nThe other day I downloaded a modeling program — 3-D Sculpt<\/a> — for my iPad. Import a generic model. Use the tools to modify it. Save. Convert. Print.\n<\/p>\n

          \nTo date I’ve only printed a bust of Michelangelo’s David and a model of a “library”. I’ve tried to print other sculptures but with little success.\n<\/p>\n

          \nHow can this be used in a library, or more specifically, in our Center For Digital Scholarship? Frankly, I don’t know, yet, but I will think of something. For example, maybe I could print 3-D statistics. Or I could create a 3-D model representing the use of words in a book. Hmmm… Do you have any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          This is the tiniest of blog postings outlining my experiences with 3-D printing. The Libraries purchased a 3-D printer — a MakerBot Replicator 2X — and it arrived here in the Center For Digital Scholarship late last week. It can print things to sizes just smaller than a bread box — not very big. To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}