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Mastering 3D Printing shows you how to get the most out of your printer, including how to design models, choose materials, work with different printers, and integrate 3D printing with traditional prototyping to make techniques like sand casting more efficient.

You´ve printed key chains. You´ve printed simple toys. Now you´re ready to innovate with your 3D printer to start a business or teach and inspire others.

Joan Horvath has been an educator, engineer, author, and startup 3D printing company team member. She shows you all of the technical details you need to know to go beyond simple model printing to make your 3D printer work for you as a prototyping device, a teaching tool, or a business machine.

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Part 1. Open-Source 3D Printers
Chapter 1. A Brief History of 3D Printing
Chapter 2. The Desktop 3D Printer
Chapter 3. Open Source
Part 2. The 3D Printing Process
Chapter 4. Making a 3D Model
Chapter 5. Slicing a 3D Model
Chapter 6. Driving Your Printer: G-code
Chapter 7. Material Considerations
Chapter 8. Case Studies
Part 3. 3D Printing Meets Traditional Prototyping
Chapter 9. Moving to Metal
Chapter 10. Large Prints and Post-Processing
Chapter 11. Troubleshooting

Part 4. Using Your Printer
Chapter 12. Printers in the Classroom
Chapter 13. Scientific Visualization
Chapter 14: Futures

Appendix A: Typical Printer Settings
Appendix B: Links and Resources

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As an engineer and management consultant, Joan Horvath has coordinated first-of-a-kind interdisciplinary technical and business projects, helping people with no common vocabulary (startups, universities, small towns, etc). work together. Her experience as a systems engineer has spanned software development, spacecraft flight operations, risk management, and spacecraft/ground system test and contingency planning.As an educator, Joan´s passion is bringing science and technology to the non-specialist in a comprehensible and entertaining way that will stay with the learner for a lifetime.

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