The technology for 3D printing has been around for many years but
now has a rapidly expanding market among hobbyists and home users.
3D printing machines are now affordable for individuals or
modelling societies and offer the opportunity to design and build
bespoke parts of a model, or even create an entire carriage, wagon
body or station building, through an automated process rather than
construct them through traditional methods and materials or buy
them off the shelf from a manufacturer. The authors take readers
through the principles of 3D printing; the benefits to the railway
modeller; the do's and don'ts of building structures in the
materials available; an overview of the various CAD packages on
offer and a simple entry-level tutorial; how to check your 3D
printable file to ensure it contains no manifold errors and how to
fix these prior to printing; troubleshooting; finishing your 3D
printed component. A separate chapter introduces laser cutting for
the modeller and includes a section on brass etching. The book
contains how-to summaries for each section and is well illustrated
with step by step techniques where appropriate, the various stages
of 3D printing, the types of CAD packages and printers available to
the modeller, and examples of models and components produced by 3D
printing.
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