3-D PRINTING AND MODELING
FMX 213-F • SPRING 2019 / CREDITS: 4.00
LOCATION: CASS 126 TIME: TR 12:00-2:50PM
INSTRUCTOR: Erica Isringhaus OFFICE: Cass Annex
OFFICE HOURS: TR 10:00-11:00 AM or by appointment
EMAIL: eisringhaus@ut.edu

READINGS

RESOURCES

Cass Lab Cage: Cage Equipment Reservation and Checkout Policies and Procedures
Cage Hours of Operation:
8am-10pm Monday-Thursday
10am-8pm Friday
12-3pm Saturday & Sunday

The Cage will be closed for the following days during the Spring 2019 semester:
Gasparilla Parade: Saturday 1/26/19
Spring Break: Saturday 3/9/19-Sunday 3/17/19
It is possible to reserve equipment over the Spring Break period. You must reserve your equipment to be collected on Friday, 3/8/19 and return it on Monday, 3/18/19.
Last week of the semester:
No checkouts or reservations will be allowed during the last week of the semester (exam week).
All equipment must be returned no later than:Monday, 5/6/19

Resources are located here. If you find something helpful or just cool that you think should be added, send it to eisringhaus@ut.edu and I will add it.

It is STRONGLY recommended that you get a Hillsborough County Library card so that you can access Lynda.com tutorials, you can apply online at:
https://www.hcplc.org/account/get-a-card


How to Prepare a Model for Printing: Makerbot

Lynda.com
3D Modeling (start with Maya Training Essentials 2017):
https://www.lynda.com/SharedPlaylist/6536ff86b9c14c3a80076078c0a3103a
3D Printing (very basic intro to printing and problem solving):
https://www.lynda.com/SharedPlaylist/5cb00a30aa4e468e8fb2e7e8a6bbdd8e

Software

For Autodesk programs such as Maya you can get a free 3 year student download. Info here

Autodesk Maya – mesh modeling
Education Community – software for students

Autodesk Fusion 360 – solid modeling
Fusion 360
student download
Get Started Tutorials
Youtube page
Essentials for New Users

Autodesk MeshMixer – mesh repair and modeling
Free download
User Manual
Tutorials:
MeshMixer Tutorial Part1 : Modeling for 3D Printing

SketchUp
https://www.sketchup.com/
– bad STL files, not ideal for 3D printing
– easy to use


Simplify 3D – Slicing for Flash Forges
Available in the print lab
Here’s nerdy a Demo/ review

Other Tutorials:
How to make Voronoi Patterns in MeshMixer
Fun 3D print and Physical computing projects from Adafruit

Helpful Maya tutorials

Beginner Basics:
Space Ship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdVBx1gpJwQ
Couch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqDqiXRtEfc

How to make a hole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26SQuA2MPWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-GuUG25yyw

How to create a turntable animation: a turntable camera and settings

Fusion 360

Mesh Mixer

Meshmixer 101

Meshmixer 3D printing

MeshMixer Tutorial Part1 : Modeling for 3D Printing

3D Printing Help

https://i.materialise.com/blog/en/3d-printing-with-maya-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-turn-your-3d-model-into-a-3d-print/

Five Common Mistakes

9 Important Concepts in 3D printing

Adding ball joints
https://pinshape.com/blog/learn-to-add-ball-joints-to-your-3d-printed-parts/

Sonia Verdu – designer and uses print in place ball joints

moveable parts – this guy is kind of dull but has some good insight

3D printable hinges

A Giant List of Everything You Need To Know about 3d Modeling

Everything Below Comes from this page!!

• http://freetexthost.com/nzjanyanw0

Tutorials:

• Image Planes as reference – setup
• http://www.free3dtutorials.com
• http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_home.php
• http://www.3dk.org/tutorials/date/15/1.html
• http://www.3dtotal.com
• http://cg.tutsplus.com/
• http://www.creativecow.net/
• http://www.videocopilot.net/
• http://poopinmymouth.com/
• http://www.tutorialized.com/
• http://www.creativecrash.com/
• http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/
• http://www.digitaltutors.com/09/index.php
• http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials
• http://www.google.com/

Specific Starter Tutorials:

Modeling

• http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.php : 3DS Max Character Modeling tutorial – Best you’ll find
• http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm : Great introduction to basic game character modeling
• http://newtek.com/lightwave/training.php : Free Lightwave 3D training videos

UVMapping and Texturing

• http://www.3drender.com/light/compositing/index.html 3D Compositing
• http://racer445.com/ : Intro to texture concepts and normal mapping
• http://cgtextures.com/ : Best free texture resource
• http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4678 : Introduction to texture concepts
• http://www.grungetextures.com/gallery/
• http://www.absolutecross.com/graphics/textures/
• http://www.psbrushes.net/ : Brushes can be used to create textures
• http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/
• http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/01/26/31-most-colorful-collection-of-high-quality-texture-packs.htm
• http://www.creativecrash.com/3dsmax/downloads/shaders/c/
• http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/shaders/c/
• http://www.creativecrash.com/downloads/3d-textures/c/
• http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/texturing-a-human-face-day-1-the-uvw-unwrap/ : UV Unwrapping in Max
• http://download.autodesk.com/media/3dsmax/peltmap_max8_380k.mov : Demo of pelt unwrap feature in Max

Service Bureaus

• Shapeways
• Sculpteo
• Ponoko
• i.materialise

File Repositories

• Thingiverse

……Open to suggestions! I’m trying to get links for everyone but I’m tired.