Printable non-lethal grenade by Beardface

As soon as I saw this printable non-lethal grenade by Beardface, I immediately thought…  There is NO way any self-respecting TSA agent or air marshal would ever let you board a plane with such a thing.  There is simply nothing you could say to anyone in an airport that would be soothing enough to make them forget you’ve got a grenade-shaped object in your luggage.  Yes, with great power comes great responsibility.

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I’m really digging this Where You MakerBot from Brian. He’s got his TOM on the left side of his workstation, and a soldering station on the right. “This way I can be printing on my makerbot and programming my arduino at the same time.”

Never missing a chance to Make. That’s a MakerBotter for ya.

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This is the second entry in a series of posts discussing MakerBot & Miniatures.  Check out last week’s post!

My journey to 3D modeling started at a drafting board and most of my CAD work still ends up in two dimensions on a piece of paper as a plan, section or elevation.  As many of the things I model in CAD are much larger than a piece of paper, it is common practice to create full scale geometry in a CAD program, and then choose a scale in which to depict the project in a layout. When I sat down to design my first model for 3D printing, I wasn’t sure how to get started.  Should I continue to create in full scale, and then scale down when I wanted to make it with my MakerBot?  Or should I design directly in scale?  I currently use both methods in my work, and today I’ll talk through the pros and cons of each approach.

I already had a workflow to go from CAD to 2D, but how would 3D printing change that?

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