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Published inAug 2013
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Joe Larson
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Joe Larson

Joe Larson, known online as "the 3D Printing Professor," is one part artist, one part mathematician, one part teacher, and one part technologist. It all started in his youth, doing BASIC programming and low-resolution digital art on a Commodore 64. As technology progressed, so did Joe's dabbling, eventually taking him to 3D modeling while in high school and college, and he momentarily pursued a degree in computer animation. He abandoned that and instead became a math teacher, and then moved to software development for 10 years before returning to education, teaching technology in college. When Joe first heard about 3D printing, it took root in his mind, and he went back to dust off his 3D modeling skills. In 2012, he won a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer in the Tinkercad/Makerbot Chess Challenge, with a chess set that assembles into a robot. Since then, his designs on Thingiverse have been featured on Thingiverse, Gizmodo, Shapeways, Makezine, and other places. He currently produces weekly videos about design for 3D printing on his YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/mrjoesays.
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Making a test ring


  1. Similar to what has been done in other projects, add a Boolean modifier to the ring and difference the Finger object from it. The Finger object obscures the effect of this operation, so hide it. One way to do this is to select (right-click) the Finger object and navigate to Show/Hide | Hide Selected from the menu at the bottom of the 3D View Panel Object or press the H key. Another way is to click on the icon that looks like an eye in the Outliner on the line for the Finger object:

  2. The ring is now perfectly serviceable, but there's no harm in making it a little more appealing. Enter the Edit Mode (Tab). Again, notice that without applying the modifier, its effects are undone while in Edit mode. Loop Cut (Ctrl + R) the cylinder around the middle-click and left-click twice when selecting, so the slice does not slide up or down:

  3. Scale (S) the newly sliced ring slightly outwards. The scaled ring of points should not extend more than 1 mm (one small grid square in the background...

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Joe Larson

Joe Larson, known online as "the 3D Printing Professor," is one part artist, one part mathematician, one part teacher, and one part technologist. It all started in his youth, doing BASIC programming and low-resolution digital art on a Commodore 64. As technology progressed, so did Joe's dabbling, eventually taking him to 3D modeling while in high school and college, and he momentarily pursued a degree in computer animation. He abandoned that and instead became a math teacher, and then moved to software development for 10 years before returning to education, teaching technology in college. When Joe first heard about 3D printing, it took root in his mind, and he went back to dust off his 3D modeling skills. In 2012, he won a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer in the Tinkercad/Makerbot Chess Challenge, with a chess set that assembles into a robot. Since then, his designs on Thingiverse have been featured on Thingiverse, Gizmodo, Shapeways, Makezine, and other places. He currently produces weekly videos about design for 3D printing on his YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/mrjoesays.
Read more about Joe Larson