3D printing processes and Printing on 3D-shape objects - WFME1024

Goal(s)

Part 1 – 3D printing (Aurore DENNEULIN)
To understand how the different 3D printing methods work
Demonstration on laboratory equipment

Part 2 - Printing on 3D-shape objects (Andrea GRAZIANO)
To give students the basics (the necessary knowledge to start to understand a subject) on some different topics through a dedicated series of six meetings.
The aim is also to provide students with an overview of the complete process, an introduction to the developed custom software for robotic inkjetting, and to show all the tasks that have been developed, why and how they were faced and solved, to give them all the 'necessary basic knowledge' to start to handle the topic.
Students will be exposed to all the challenges and opportunities in printing electronics using a 6-axis robot.

Content(s)

Part 1 - 3D printing, cellulose printing

Part 2 – 6-axis robot, jetting, 3D objects
1. - State of the Art of 6-axis robots use: what is a 6-axis robot, and state of the art of industrial and non-industrial 6-axis robotics.
2. - Introduction to 6-axis robotics: key concepts and basics about 6-axis robots needed for use and programming.
3. - Introduction to Additive Processes: additive processes, continuous processes, and inkjetting.
4. - Introduction to Rhinoceros 3D & RhinoRobot
5. - Custom Software explanation: explanation of the robotic inkjet printing process using a specific software, the adopted computational strategies, and their limitations.
6. - Custom Software explanation + Extras

• Evaluation

Part 1 – Materials, cellulose
Part 2 – 3D printing