Making Things See

Printing Our Model on a MakerBot

Now that we’ve got good geometry in a reasonably-sized file, we’re ready to start printing. In this section, I’ll take you through the steps that are necessary for printing out your scan on a MakerBot (Figure 5-22). We’ll be using ReplicatorG (http://replicat.org) to process and position our STL file as well as to control the MakerBot during the print itself. I’ll walk you through the basic steps required to make a print, including:

• Importing your model into ReplicatorG

• Positioning and scaling your model

• Generating gcode

• Driving the bot through the print

Figure 5-22. The MakerBot midway through printing out our scan. ...