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WEEK 5



3D PRINTING



I designed a simple vase in FUSION 360. Below you can see the way I have modeled it. I drew a section and than did a revolted extrusion. Than I chose a plane, drawn the handle and mirrored it to the other side.

Because of the thickness of the wall I would not be able to make this piece substractively unless I would cut it in half. This prototyping technique alowes me to prototype the object I designed in a most acurate and easy way.

You can export your 3d model directly from Fusion 360 to CURA - the Ultimaker software.
It's really easy. CURA has a user friendly interface and does everything for you. You can choose the orientation of your object, scale it and move it arround a virtual building plate. You can also choose different settings regarding resolution, material, layer height, speed, fill density, thickness of the shell (which is always multiple of the size of the nozzle) and choose if you want to enable support and material retraction. The program creates the slices automatically and lets you in a simple way save the generated file directly on the SD card. Than with the SD card you transfer your file to the printer.

Ultimaker is also very friendly to use. Most of trouble shooting you get is with the material feed and settings. I started with woodfill but didn't manage to get it to work. Than just printed in simple PLA and experimented witg BRONZE wich I like the most. I have also learned how to change material and how to clean the nozzle if the material gets stuck. The only down side of this printer is that you have to babysit it non stop.

PRINTER: Ultimaker 2

PROGRAM: CURA

ORYGINAL VAZE FILE IN .STL

ORYGINAL VAZE FILE IN FUSION 360





TEST 1


Material: PLA
ENABLE SUPPORT: Everywhere







First vase I printed was with full enabling support. Than I made a test with no support and it worked!

TEST 2


Material: BronzeFill
ENABLE SUPPORT: NO






I like the imperfections of the material floating in space.



TESTING DIFFERENT MATERIALS



Each material links to websites where you can find info about the material and profiles to upload to the printer!

BRONZE FILL

GLOW FILL

WOOD FILL



Glow in the dark fillament


Bronze fillament


Wood fillament - the trounble maker



LEARNING OUTCOMES

Advantages of 3D printing and 3D scanning technology

Limitations of 3D printing and 3D scanning technology - PRINTING IS VERY SLOW...
- In my work I could see it as a very valuable method for prototyping objects Apply design methods and production processes to show your understanding. Have you: Described what you learned by testing the 3D printers Shown how you designed and made your object and explained why it could not be made subtractively Scanned an object Outlined problems and how you fixed them Included your design files and ‘hero shot’ photos of the scan and the final object



3D SCANNING

I have scanned 2 heads using iSENSE 3D scanner for iPAD AIR. I was really amazed how simple it was to scan with it! All you need is a good light and a bit of patience.





















GROUP ASSIGNMENT



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