On November 11th, Alex and I went to the wet lab inside of ME to meet with a graduate student in order to show us how to use the 3D scanner. Alex brought an insole …
Month: November 2015
Wheelchair attachment preprocessing
Cura was used to look at part and process optimization to prepare our part for the first prototype. Cura is an open source pre-processing software that gives approximations on build time based on the desired …
Beer Faucet Optimization
This week the team used the Cura software to optimize our models and prepare initial prototypes. Additionally, the use of alternate production methods was examined. We examined multiple alternatives to FDM production of the beer …
Trebuchet #2 – Testing.
The next step of our trebuchet project is to test our initial prototype. We printed the arm and attachments from the previous post. So this morning we got together to do some testing on our …
First Parts
Today we printed our first parts. We decided quickly to use the FDM process to make our parts. Besides the sufficient number of printers in the lab the mechanical properties of FDM are good and …
Designing Components
After breaking up the machine into individual components and dividing out the work, we have come up with an initial design. All parts were created with Solidworks following the guidelines that we highlighted in https://additive-mfg-me.qa.wiscweb.wisc.edu/?p=83 . …
Filament Detector Design Plan
In regards to what sensor we will actually use for detecting the failed print, we were originally considering a rotational sensor. In this scenario we would use an Arduino tinkerkit micro servo module as seen …
Trebuchet #2 – Design
The next step for the design of our desktop trebuchet is to produce an initial design and CAD files that can be converted into STL files for printing. Using inspiration for generic trebuchets online we …
Beer Faucet CAD
This week the team designed a beer faucet and two aesthetic attachments in SolidWorks. Designing the beer tap, Josh and Brad took all the important dimensions that would be required to fit the metal internals …
Insole CAD Model, Flexible Printing Filament
A 3D scanner will be implemented (Tuesday, 11/3) to model the 3D foot sole shape to provide customized arch support to the insole. 3D scanning will be a part of the pre-processing phase on the …