Week 6

Group Assignment

Test design rules for the 3D printer to be used. We tested three an ultimaker, a rostock and a syndoh to define which one to used in each assignment.

Instructions

1. Look for a test model and download from Internet
2. Guarantee is a small enough piece that it will print within a small am ouont of time (took 4 hours each)
3. Open in the program for 3D printing
4. The parameters used for all printers were. layer height 0.15 and Fill 25%
5. Open in 3D printer
6. Press start
7. Wait until ready
8. Eliminate any excess material from the piece
9. Repeat with Rostock and Syndoh
10. Compare pieces
11. I decided to print all of my pieces in the ultimaker despite Syndoh being the best quality overall becauase I did not need to print any angles or vertical lines.

Individual Assignment

3D scan an object with different techniques and optionally print it. I used three different techniques, laser arm scan (Romer), white lighting scanning (Shining 3D) and photometrics (Qlone for iPhone).

Instructions Romer

1. Start arm and connect to the computer
2. Start software and open scanning mode
3. Start moving the laser scan all around the piece
4. Continuosly check that the piece is being formed in the computer software
5. Continue scanning until th efigure is recognizable
6. Save the final result as a txt with coordenates
7. Open txt fil in GeoMagic
8. Close mesh as good as possible
9. Define if you are going to priint the file, if yes export to .stl (I did not print this one)

Instructions Qlone

1. Install Qlone onyour phone or tablet
2. Print mat to define scanning region
3. Put your piece in the center of mat
4. Start app
5. Follow your phone trying to get rid of the dome that the app creates over your piece
6. Once the dome is transparent your piece is finished
7. The end result is gorgeous, exactly like the original
8. Export to as many formats as you want (and/or want to pay for)
9. You can even play with your model with Augmented Reality
10. I decided not print this model although it was the best by far, because creating an stl file came with a price

Instructions Lighting Scanner

1. Install the scanner and connect to your computer
2. Open the scanning software
3. Callibrate, if the scanner is not callibrated it won't work (believe me we tried)
4. Set your piece in the middle of the rotating plate
5. Set the scanner to identify your piece, this means selecting the kind of color it will receive (light or dark pieces need differente parameters)
6. Select the number of loops it will make, 25 loops in this case
7. Press play and start scanning
8. Don't move your piece while scanning, be patient
9. After the scanning is finished put your piece on the side and start scanning again
10. Don't move your piece
11. After both scans are finished merge both mesh
12. Save your project
13. Open in Mesh mixer to clean up a bit
14. Export to stl to be printed
15. This was the easiest way to scan

Instructions Printing

1. Open in the program for 3D printing
2. The parameters used for all printers were. layer height 0.15 and Fill 25%
3. Open in 3D printer
4. Press start
5. Wait until ready
6. Eliminate any excess material from the piece
7. Compare to original piece

Individual Assignment

Design and 3D print an object (small, few sqaure centimeters, limited by printer time), that could not be made substractively.

Instructions

1. Open Fusion 360
2. Go to the sculpting tools
3. Create a square and start subdividng each face
4. Eliminate excess faces to create a whole in each side
5. Create a sphere and insert within the square
6. Extrude the square to 5 mm so it will have depth and can be printed (my first attemp was not extruded and couldn't be printed)
7. Export to stl for 3D printing
8. Open in 3d printer software, set parameteres, fill 25%, minimum support
9. Print and wait for final result
10. Eliminate support and excess material from piece
11. Play with it, it rattles!

Documents

• Ball in a Box rattler, step format
• XOLO Mex mixer