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Functional Design for 3D Printing: Designing 3d printed things for everyday use - 3rd edition Paperback – June 26, 2017

by Clifford T Smyth (Author)

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Functional Design for 3D Printing 3rd Edition is your guide to the intersection of design, 3d printing, and utility. This volume will demonstrate design practices that expand the possibilities for durable, functional objects. Your functional models will print quickly and reliably, delivering the full potential of the “desktop factory”.Functional Design for 3D Printing will help you to: Turn your ideas into practical designs that print reliably and assemble into durable, functional objects Maximize strength for utility and estimate working and failure load ratings Minimize printing time, material use, and weight Minimize the chance of print failure, ensuring reliable prints on a variety of machines and software Design printable hinges, latches, interlocking parts, and other functional elements Design printable electronic breadboards, prototypes, and simple components Integrate flexibility and multiple materials into your functional designs Solve bed adhesion and warping problems at the design level, improving print reliability Select the correct structural paradigm(s) for each application Know how and when to include dedicated support structures into your model for maximum printabilityIf you are an experienced designer, Functional Design for 3D Printing will present design principles and practices that will help you to quickly model functional, printable objects. This volume will help you to improve and accelerate your design and prototyping work-flow.If you are a novice designer, Functional Design for 3D Printing will be a useful introduction, supplement, and reference for functional design. This volume will give you the technical framework for you to improve your expertise with a minimum of trial and error frustration, and will be your go-to guide for design solutions. 118 illustrations, 234 pages. This third edition is extensively improved and expanded from the second edition: More than twice as many illustrations and 35% more text Extensively rewritten for easier reading and comprehension Updated with modern materials and technologiesSome words of praise from purchasers of the second edition: “Unlike many other currently available books about 3D printing which are heavy with ra-ra encouragements about how great 3D printing is and how everyone can excel with a little effort, this book is simply page after page of useful information about the nitty-gritty aspects of actually trying to print good models. This is the kind of knowledge that beginning (and experienced) enthusiasts need to know to avoid any potential frustrations. Don't be put off by the rather short length of this book; there's more here than most other books that are hundreds of pages longer. Highly recommended.”“Lots of solid information on best design practice and material properties. It's written in such a way that the information won't be out of date for a long time. If you're experienced at 3D printing this book will reaffirm the things you learned through trial and error, and probably teach you a few tricks you never thought of. If you're new to 3d printing, or new at designing parts that will be 3D printed, this book will save you a ton of time and materials.”“This book provides a wealth of rules, guidelines, and insights to help you create designs that print and behave properly. It does a wonderful job of explaining all the strange effects that can make even simple prints fail, and how to easily minimize or compensate for them.” ….. “ As others here have suggested, buy the print version so you can highlight it and keep it next to your printer.”

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June 26, 2017
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6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
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0692883215
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978-0692883211
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clifford Smyth (June 26, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0692883215
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0692883211
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.54 x 9 inches

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julio dominguez

Great information, Ugly unpleasant book with bad pictures

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018

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My problem with this book is that the content is really great, but the graphics and the aesthetics of the book are terrible, more so than usual.
Some of the images are so awfully presented that I can't get anything from them. For the most part, the images are lackluster and appear to be lo resolution, poorly formatted (aspect ratio problems), and poorly exposed/graded for black and white printing.

It is a shame that this book looks so unprofessionally thrown together and that the graphics are so bad. The information is extremely good and worthwhile to have as a reference. Author should respect that his audience are a bunch of technical heads and could read a book/books on photography and publishing for visualization. Taking the time to make sure that the images are the right dpi (300 minimum) and that they can be understood easily is critical, especially for a technical primer.

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J. Carter

Pragmatic, useful advice for designing real-world parts

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2017

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"Functional Design for 3D Printing" is truly what it says on the tin: it'll teach you to design 3D-printed parts that function in the real world. Most books with "3D printing" anywhere in the title are mostly fluff; 3D printing is great, rah rah, here's how to print desk toys. Most mechanical design books, on the other hand, are math-heavy textbooks.

This book hits the middle ground just right. It focuses on pragmatic advice for designing useful parts that are strong enough to work in real-world applications. Topics such as infill, part orientation, overhangs and support, and other design considerations specific to FFM (fused filament manufacturing) are covered in great detail. While it's technical stuff, Smyth backs up his explanations with examples and diagrams rather than equations--this book is very much focused on pragmatism over theory.

Some other reviewers fuss about the book being short. That's a plus in my opinion; I don't want to read a 400 page book when a 200 page book will do. This book is compact but, as far as useful information content is concerned, it hits way above its weight. If only other writers valued their reader's time so much.

In sum, if you're looking to move past desk toys and use 3D printing for real stuff, this is the book for you.

11 people found this helpful

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Gary E. Albers

Much packed into a small space

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016

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Unlike many other currently available books about 3D printing, which are heavy with ra-ra encouragements about how great 3D printing is and how everyone can excel with a little effort, this book is simply page after page of useful information about the nitty-gritty aspects of actually trying to print good models. This is the kind of knowledge that beginning (and experienced) enthusiasts need to know to avoid any potential frustrations. Don't be put off by the rather short length of this book; there's more here than most other books that are hundreds of pages longer. Highly recommended.

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Bradford Needham

Solid handbook of 3D Print design rules

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016

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This book provides a wealth of rules, guidelines, and insights to help you create designs that print and behave properly. It does a wonderful job of explaining all the strange effects that can make even simple prints fail, and how to easily minimize or compensate for them. It only lacks a short introduction to mechanical force terminology (Compression, Tension, etc.) and the principle of Stress Localization. As others here have suggested, buy the print version so you can highlight it and keep it next to your printer.

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Richard Frantz Jr.

Good for the person getting started in design for 3d printing

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020

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This book is good for someone getting started in doing designs for FFM (Fused Filament Manufacturing) as it shows how to redesign for more effective manufacture. Little things like turning around a part to be printed can make it much stronger/more useful. The author has a lot of experience with design and layout and the analysis of how effective the design will be.

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C. Williams

Gateway to Additive Manufacturing

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2018

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Provides excellent perspective into the functional world of 3D Printing. Not going to knock any stars for the production quality of the book, but would suggest the publishers consider the full treatment on this one with high-res color imagery as well as supplemental materials. If you find this book "fits" your interests reader, then I strongly suggest his other on the same topic. I'd drop the zombie theme (I enjoyed it actually but would be concerned by those who think it somehow reduces the maturity of the content) and just consider it Vol 2: *Lean* Functional Additive Manufacturing. NOTE TO AUTHOR: I'm grateful for this work it was very accessible and I know that's not easy with complex topics. ALSO, I going to need Vol 3 Soon! just saying!

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Nicholas Champlin

a must

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2017

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Lots of solid information on best design practice and material properties. It's written in such a way that the information won't be out of date for a long time. If you're experienced at 3D printing this book will reaffirm the things you learned through trial and error, and probably teach you a few tricks you never thought of. If you're new to 3d printing, or new at designing parts that will be 3D printed, this book will save you a ton of time and materials.

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Markrob

this book has some great ideas for working with 3D printed designs

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2016

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Short and to the point, this book has some great ideas for working with 3D printed designs. It clearly states the issues and provides nice real world solutions to the types of problems you can run into. I'm still a 3D printing newbie and this was a great help to me. The Kindle version suffers from poor rendering of the images, so I would go for the PDF version of the book.

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Hints for using fused filament 3d printers with a smidgeon of functional design nous written in a reader-tiring style

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2016

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Most of this book is not really about functional design, its about the low level finagling which is necessary to get fused filament fabrication (fff) type consumer 3d printers to produce acceptable output.

Ok, lets talk about the functional design aspect first. As far as I know, all the current 3d printing processes create prints using some kind of layer-by-layer method. The behaviour of the material of the print will vary according to direction. For example, fff prints tend to fail by separation of adjacent layers when subjected to tension in the z-direction and consequently end up being relatively weak under this kind of stress. As a designer you may want to take account of this by re-orientating parts relative to the layering direction. The book also talks about how to get hinges to work and how to arrange the geometry to get parts to snap together. Thats about it for functional design insight.

Most of the material is about how to cope with the practical issues of getting fff 3d printing to work using today's flaky printers and buggy software. For example, he talks about improving bed adhesion by various means and how you might want to connect inner voids to the outside with holes so that today's slicers don't (contrary to design intent) ignore them. This is quite low level stuff and although useful it does not really fit with the term functional deisgn.

Getting in the way of this useful, albeit mistitled material is the author's writing style. He seems to have sacrificed clarity for some other priority. I have the feeling he is trying to conform to some misconceived notion of how a technical author should write. At its least intrusive this takes the form of labelling his illustrations with the tags "(illustration by author)" or "(photo by author)" which seems entirely unnecessary. Then I noticed an "Author's note:" which begs the question as to who else might be leaving notes for the reader. This is odd but unobstructive. Then there are things like this: "The number of solid layers dictates the solid layers at the Z terminus, or top and bottom, of any models or printed features" as a description of a slicer parameter ... hmm, "Z terminus"? He has 'problematic situations' rather than 'problems' and 'X-Y oriented tubes' rather than 'horizontal tubes'. Very occasionally the meaning disappears but mostly this kind of stuff makes the book an unnecessarily tiring read.

So in summary: hints for using fused filament 3d printers and software with a smidgeon of functional design nous written in a reader-tiring style.

10 people found this helpful

Mr C

There's more to life than infill!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2016

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As far as I have found, this book is unique. This is not a basic primer on 3D printers and printing - that's covered by pretty much every other book on 3D printing.

Instead, this book explains design considerations and associated options when creating models that will be 3D printed using FFF/FFM machines i.e. the "domestic" 3D printers.

If you're serious about implementing designs that work whilst minimising structural failures, i.e. creations that don't instantly break, this is a "must read" book.

A very clearly written, clearly typset book with plenty of useful diagrams, you do NOT need to be a mechanical engineer to follow this. Indeed, this is for all of us who don't have that structural engineering background.

There's far more to succesful 3D design and printing than infill % and layer height!

I struggled over 4 stars vs 5. Whilst being very useful I kept wishing for more. But I decided that perhaps that's just me. This book is filled with practical content and I will benefit from rereading it. There is nothing similar available. 5 stars it is :-)

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Mr. K. A. Lindley

... Zombie Apocalypse Guide to 3D Printing" (which is an excellent book) that I had previously purchased and so felt ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2018

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A substantial part of it is a reprint of his book "The Zombie Apocalypse Guide to 3D Printing" (which is an excellent book) that I had previously purchased and so felt as though I should have a rebate. Nevertheless the book as a whole is excellent and I have used many of the tips already. It would be better value for money if you didn't buy the previous book beforehand!

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Graham

great design details

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020

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I've used 3D printers for many years but had not considered design specific to 3D printing, this book has opened my eyes to how to get the best out of the things that I print. Being a practical person I have printed out some of the items discussed in the book to actually see for myself what the author was talking about. This has really reinforced the concepts covered within the book. I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who wants to do more than print out items from thingiverse.

Bob90

Good book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2020

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Useful information in one place.

Things like tolerances, materials and some engineering principles.

However, the book states it is not for beginners, but doesn't give enough information for the intermediate user. Also, too much focus on planes and drone parts and not enough discussion about the failure of the tarp hook.

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