Overview The final design was printed entirely on the Stratasys machine (Figure 1). This is because the home user printers had far too poor of a resolution to generate the mechanical and surface quality which …
Year: 2016
5.) Final Optimization and Final Design
We decided to redesign the bow for the current printed size of the track and grip to be able to print another working prototype of the bow quickly and evaluate the snap connection as well. …
2.) CAD Component Design
Our objective is to eliminate the need for an elastic rubber band. In order to make the bow work with a non-elastic string, the bow must be designed in such a way that it can …
Print Parameter Optimization
Ornithopter Print Parameter Optimization This post summarizes the printing parameters that were used in the production of the original and final ornithopter designs. Both designs were created on the Ultimaker machine, and the following …
Collapsible Bottle Opener – Final Part Assembly
The final opener design makes use of several added features to improve the hinge and lip strength as well as improve the aesthetics and ergonomics of the opener. Hinge and Lip Strength Improvements To improve the …
Collapsable Bottle Opener – Printer Parameters
Initially, the bottle opener took three hours to print using the home-user printers we have in lab. However, because the home-user printers lack the resolution to print a moving hinge, all other prototypes were printed on a stratasys …
Bow Optimization
Bow Optimization Choices We were surprised by how flexible the first version of the bow was. It was designed with some flexibility in mind, but we felt that this version was able to deflect much …
4.) Print prototype and evaluate assembly
Since the first printed prototype version of the grip and trigger was unwieldy, too small, and the resolution was not high enough to print all the details, we scaled everything up to 2 times the …
Functional and Aesthetic Optimization
In the past week we printed another prototype of our last design, using a Stratasys printer. Unfortunately, the minimum layer height of that printer (0.25mm) proved to be too large compared to the Ultimaker 2+ (0.1mm), which made our design impossible to …
Collapsible Bottle Opener – Prototype and Evaluation
The printing of our most recent prototypes included a larger hinge and altering the curvature of the opener to better grasp the bottle lid. These models restricted to movement of the hinge to 90 degrees. The …