3D Scanning and Printing

This week I designed and 3D printed an object that could not be made subtractively and I 3D scanned the full body of a my friend.

3D Printing

For 3D printing I was inspired by this peristaltic pump by Drmn4ea.

Design

I started with the gears to draw it. With GearTrax I generated the crown and one of the planets in Solidworks.

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Figure 1. GearTrax overview

For each gear I added a spacer, where it will stay the tube, then I mirrored the gear and chamfered to facilitate printing and avoid attachments between the parts.

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Figure 2. Spacer

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Figure 3. Mirroring

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Figure 4. Sun part

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Figure 5. Planet part

I also added the holes to the crown to let the tube pass and some elements to be able to block it.

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Figure 6. Crown part

This is the final result.

download PeristalticPump 9,77 MB (.zip)

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Figure 7. Assembly

download PeristalticPump 4,04 MB (.stl)

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Slicing

To print I had to convert the STL exported by Solidworks into a file format that the machine can read it, namely gcode. This step must be done with a slicing program, I chose Cura 3.2.1 because the 3D printer that I used is an Ultimaker 2+ of the same vendor.

To avoid interference between the pieces I have added the parameter Horizontal Expansion and I set it to -0.2mm.

download gear 811 byte (.curaprofile)

download UM2_PeristalticPump 20,9 MB (.gcode)

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Figure 8. The preview in Cura

Print

To print is very simple, after turning on the printer I inserted the SD card and from the menu I selected my file. The rest is done automatically by the printer.

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Figure 9. Ultimaker 2+

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Figure 10. The display

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Figure 11. The print finished

I was able to insert the tube with great effort and this is the end result.

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Figure 12. My peristaltic pump!

Unfortunately the pump didn't work, I find it hard to rotate and suck the water. I think because the pipe I used is not suitable.

3D Scanning

For 3D scanning I used the Sense by 3D Systems.

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Figure 13. Sense

Process

First of all, I selected from the software the type of scan I intend to do in order to automatically optimize the parameters. Then I select Person -> Full Body. I did several tests of light and distance and I got the best results in a neon-lit room are about 70-80cm of the sensor from the subject.

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Figure 14. Person

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Figure 15. Full Body

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Figure 16. A test gone wrong.

Scan

To scan I pressed Play and I started to turn around the subject are waiting to keep the same distance.

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Figure 17. When scanning.

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Figure 18. Just finished.

Very important is to solidify the meshes.

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Figure 19. Solidify

Before saving the file I performed some Crop, Erase and again a Solidify.

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Figure 20. Crop

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Figure 21. Erase

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Figure 22. Solidify

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Figure 23. Save

The file that is saved is a binary PLY.

download full-body 2,25 MB (.ply)

Conversion

Since the resulting file is not usable for printing, I converted it to STL with Rhinoceros simply by importing and exporting.

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Figure 24. Rhinoceros view

download full-body 5,50 MB (.stl)

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Group Assignment

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