Week6 : 3D Scanning and Printing

Test the design rules for your 3D printer(group)

Our lab's 3D printer is AFENIA H480
We leaned how to use AFENIA H480 and tested its design rules.
  • How to use AFENIA slicer.
  • Experiment: How accurately our 3D printer could print.
  • First we make test board, it's have 3 holes(3mm, 5mm, 7mm) and 3 cylinder(3mm, 5mm, 7mm). The pourpose of this board is that I wanted to know how much leeway should be given to the combination part in order to make things in a state of combining two parts with a 3D printer.
    Result is follows
    • 3mm hole ->2.95mm
    • 5mm hole ->4.9mm
    • 7mm hole ->6.8mm
    • 3mm cylinder ->2.95mm
    • 5mm cylinder ->4.75mm
    • 7mm cylinder ->6.75mm
The accuracy of the hole was -0.05 to -0.2 mm
The accuracy of the cylinder was -0.05 to -0.25 mm
Comparing holes and cylinders designed with the same size, the cylinder tended to print smaller.
As a result of the experiment, it was expected to combine the holes and the cylinder even if they were made with the same size. I tried it, it was quite tight(It could't move), but it could to be combined.
I understand that it is good to design with a difference of about 0.5 mm when making movable parts to be assembled from the results of experiments.

Group assignment(including another test) is discribed group page.

Design and 3D print an object (small, few cm)that could not be made subtractively (individual)

3D design with Fusion360

3D Scan

3D design

Since I have used Sense 3D scanner, I wanted to use other one. I scanned with i-phone app Trnio.

After open Trnio app, you shoul tap camera icon if you scan with iphone camera.


Tap the screen to start scanning.
Move the iphone slowly, the photos are took automaticaly.


After taking the picture, tap the menu icon and the Queue. You can see the list of you have scanned.


If you tap the picture that you want to edit, you can see that screen. In that screen, you can trim and publish to Sketchfab.

The 3D scanner of the application was easier to use than expected.
【Problem】 If the surroundings is not bright ennough, it will not be able to scan well.The following is the result of scanning with bright one side because only light was applied from one direction. As you can see, only one side had been scanned. Therefore, the mouse scan shown above was done in a bright place.

【Sense 3D scanner】
I noticed that using Tnrio can not be a stl file. So, I scanned with Sense 3D scanner.
Next, scanned data was cut in half with meshmixer.



Export to stl file.


Following picture is the mold that made with 3D printer.

Files (all file-->zip)

All files can be downloaded form here