Week 4: 3D scanning and printing
3D Printing
This week, we are 3D printing a small object that cannot be made subtractively.
I'd wanted to play with programmatic CAD, so I began playing around with OpenSCAD.
Just to get a couple of test prints under my belt, I then submitted the print jobs via email for batch printing:
Later on, Tom & co. had printed it out on the Objet, and it is now acting as a nice pencil holder!
I became a bit hooked on OpenSCAD this week. I designed a few other objects, but due to the bottleneck in 3D printer availability early this week have not had a chance to print them yet:
I would love to try to print this one out, but performing a full render and generating an STL file for this seems to be prohibitively time consuming:
3D Scanning
I used the Artec scanner to scan a few things over the course of the week!
First I tried... my shoe! It had an interesting texture so I was curious if that would be captured.
I had a few minutes another time and decided to try scanning my coffee mug:
The coffee mug didn't end up with a cohesive scan.
The lab I work in (Personal Robots) has a bunch of interesting looking robots around, so I asked if I could borrow Huggable to do a scan.
By this time in the week, 3d print time became a bit of a bottleneck (both Prusas & batch-emailed), so I haven't had a chance to print it out yet.
I would love to eventually turn the Huggable scan (or one of its 3D models) into a keychain.