3D Scanning and printing

This week was focussed to become familiarised with 3D scanning and printing.

3D PRINTING

3D printing refers to processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object with material being added together

. 3D printing is used in both rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing (AM). Objects can be of almost any shape or geometry and typically are produced using digital model data from a 3D model or another electronic data source such as an Additive Manufacturing File (AMF).

we have two FDM printers, an Ultimaker 2 and a Dimension SST 1200 i our lab

Testing 3D printer.

Before printing our we test printed a model from internet in Ultimaker.

3D design

i used openscad to design my 3d design. Openscad is command based 3d designing tool. You can use mathematical and logical operation to create a 3d object. I made a turners cube in openScad.

I loaded output from openScad to Cura software to make any necesary changes.

I printed the turners cube on both Ultimaker2 and Dimension which are in the lab.

All design files can be downloaded here