About 3d printing and Machine

3d printing is additive manufacturing technique in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object, with material being added together3D 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 Refer wiki for more

there are many technologies for 3d printing FDM, SLA, DLP, SLS, DMLS, SLM, EBM, Material Jetting, DOD, and Binder Jetting they are simply explained on link refer

We have two 3d printer one is Ultimaker 2+ and another is Flashforge Dreamer

Get the link About for ultimaker 2+ from here and manual here  from my personal experience it is very good printer as earlier i used shaperjet , falshforge , indie etc as comparing maintenance of it , print quality with other i recommend this , it has very good  community support , all the errors you will find in their community page and debugging is also easy.

Machine Specification Ultimaker 2+

1 Build volume

Ultimaker 2+223 x 223 x 205 mm

2 Materials

Filament system:Open filament system

Optimized for: PLA, ABS, CPE, CPE+, PC, Nylon, TPU 95A with 2.85 mm material dia spool

3 Layer resolution

From: 600 micron Up to:20 micron

4 Speed

Build speed:Up to 24 mm³/s

Travel speed: Up to 300 mm/s

for more visit link we did all test varying  this parameters in group work refer group work

Machine Specification Flashforge Dreamer

FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication)

1 Build Volume

230 L X 150 W X 140 H mm

2 Extruder Two

3 Layer Resolution

100~500 microns

4 File Type

STL, OBJ

for more visit page

i am not using this printer in this week ,i used this in my final project for which refer my project development page ed

About Software

i use cura ( Download Link ) Ultimaker and flashprint ( Download Link ) for flashforge dreamer link for downloading this software as i used both software one for this week and another for my final project , as comparing both cura is open-source software compatible with most of the printer in market and it's community is also very strong and they are upgrading features day by day , considering flashprint it is for only flashforge 3d printer as this is also good software have good support generation feature as you can manually edit support which is still missing in cura but i like cura most

Group Work

In group work we need to Test the design rules for your 3D printer(s) for this we made , For testing the 3d printer we did the group assignment in which we Learn how to operate 3d printer and about slicing software Cura , we also did test print which is for testing different things which can be printed at different parameters as bridges gap , cylinder etc detail description of this at our group page My Contribution in Group Work is to design a files for printing

About this week

This week we were asked about exploring more about 3d printing and 3d scanning , as i am already aware about 3d printing and used 3d printer before also but don't experiment machine parameters for this i made test file in fusion, details of which are explained in our group work using certain observation from group work and making test files i did this week assignment

Important links for this week

1 fabacadmy 3d printing tutorials in this go to week 5

2 stratasys education material   really good stuff to read

3 da vinchi gear system stratasys eduction 3d printing Da-winchi presentation and challange refer by our regional mentor

4 3d hub for 3d printing designs

5 Thingverse for 3d printing design

Designing omni wheel and why omni wheel

for exploring more about 3d printing and making something which can not be done by process by any other method ,i decided to make omni wheel in single assembly as by any other process you can not make omni wheel with moving roller in single part   as i may also use it for my final project so i take challenge to print it but before that i need to design one such as i have to set tolerance in design which allow it to move.

Process involved in designing

1 Designing single unit wheel assembly for testing roller movement

the major challenge in designing is to consider tolerance of 3d printing so roller of omni wheel will rotate ,i am doubted about the roller rotation so i made test file of roller with support keeping difference between outer dia of rod and inner dia of  roller

Design 1 it has 1 mm difference between  inner dia of roller and outer dia of rod

Design 2 ir has 2 mm difference between inner dia of roller and outer dia of rod

i use cura for slicing and generate gcode for printing for design 1 i give support so rod got stuck with roller and no motion

in design 2 i print without support i get better result as roller is moving but its rotation is restrictricted t0 270 only due to bulging in one side

i tried the same model without support than finally roller but it is moving upto 270 degree due to bulging in one side as shown Video of design 2 testing

2 Design omni wheel complete assembly

AS in cad designing week i made omni wheel design but that design is for making omni wheel in assembly of different parts but for this week i need single unit to print so i redesign also did some improvement in my design

design 1 is failed as i have given o.5 mm thickness gap between roller and rod so the material support don't allow it to rotate now for this design 2 i gave  1mm thickness gap between roller and experiment with support desnity of 15 percent , 10 percent in both the case with line type support structure , it does not work as roller is not moving

Editing in Meshmixer

i generated .stl file for this , for printing i want minimum support inside roller and good support outside portion for stable printing

i remove support and check whether my roller are moving or not ,i find roller are moving but upto certain angle because of bulging at one side of roller

Challenges in printing and measure taken

1 As failing print again and again - it may be because of problem in machine and later on confirming from other batch mates, i come to know that they also face such problem so above print fail because of material blockage in printer nozzle so i cleaned the nozzle for next time for getting the correct print and i am successful in that

2 rollers are not moving - on rotating the top roller which are printed nicely i come to know there is error in design i need to increase the gap between the roller and touching side so i did this mortification in next printing

3 bottom surface of roller shake on printing -thus printing is done layer by layer so bottom part of roller shakes on printing a base ,it create bulging in roller for it i give raft in printing the final model but it destroy somewhat surface finish on removing

Changes in design

Setting the parameters in cura for printing final one

Hero shot of final print

Printing process

Process for removing print and support

for removing print let the printer cool down than Take a built plate out and use spectula and twiser  for removing the print out of bed as shown above and for removing support material use wood  knife or twiser to remove extra support structure

3d scanning

3d scanning is really interesting thing I use kanect

About Skanect

it is free version licensed software and really good for body scanning even scanning process is very easy and after scanning you can export your files in obj , stl formats which you can edit and 3d print , we have Microsoft kinect 360in our lab so i used this for scanning body of our wood workshop technician mr juned

Requirement for scanning

Hardware - scaning  device microsoft kinnect 360 , usb data cable,

software requirement - Kinect windows SDK v1.8 and which you can download from here and   skanect 1.9 software pakage which you will get from here

install all this software and connect your scanner with your laptop and open skanect software

Steps for scanning with skanect

link of original SCANED file

Problem i face in scanning and correction i did

1  i am scanning the human body and i have to capture 360 degree view to generate scanned model as in first or second scan ,the speed of rotation of person sitting on chair changes very abruptly  as he moves fast in half rotation and very slow in second half rotation thus this thing destroy the whole scanned view on scanning , i did this 2-3 times and making movement of chair close to contant speed i get correct scaned model

2 surrounding object in frame - as initially i did the same scanning experiment  in messy background i.e lots of things placed in background than i found this surrounding things are also coming in my frame than i shifted to plane background where there is white board in back of person sitting in this frame , i get correct scan

3d Printing wheels for final project

I printed omni wheel for my final project , description and design for that i updated in project development week you can visit my Project development page for 3d printed wheels.

Making lithophanes

Making lithophanes i.e 3d print 2d image file ,this is really cool thing as i first started this by following one reference from instructable here refer this you will

Steps for Making it

Making lithophane is very easy there lot more ways of making it which you will find in instrcutable link above , i am making it using cura

Step 1 -drag the image( .jpg)  file in cura software simply it will ask you for setting some values of some parameters there as shown below , drag your mouse over them for understanding  its meaning

Step 2 After setting all this parameters you can set normal settings in cura which are as given here i scale its size  but does not reduce size in z axis as it should be of 2-3 mm for proper detailing

Hero shorts

Exploring Autodesk Recap software

Use ReCap™ Pro to create 3D models from photographs or laser scans. The final product is a point cloud or mesh ready for CAD , you can download this software from here , i used this software for scanning week with aim of  just exploration , as it is software from autodesk , i read its review that it is good for generating 3d view cad geometry from patching large number of photos taken from different angle i tried talking photos of different object available in lab ,but as i tried this thing 2-3 times but the results are not that much satisfactory that i am expecting

Note things to care while taking photos

1 When you are taking photos , take large number of photos approx 50 -70

2 Take photos from all angles in sequential order as starting from one side and finishing on another side

3  your photos should not be blur

4  while taking photos keep white background i.e if you are taking photos of object keep white sheet in bottom of it as it will help

    software to subtract background from image or if you have white object keep black background preferable.

Steps for using this software

for stating with this software you first need to download this software and you need autodesk account for this or you can also use it with trial version , i have account so i login with that now

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