Hello 3D Printers
Yet another technical input
We changed our location, moved out of the seminar room and the IT lab and headed to the workshop which is full of 3D printers. This time we had a guest lecturer, who is a member of the industrial design faculty, Roman. I think it is really nice to sometimes work with teachers out of the IAD team as we can get a different point of view on the same field.
Over the summer new Cetus 3D printers arrived at the lab, so we jumped directly into working with them. It is a very small but powerful little guy with easy setup. We had a very simple task: modify a token however we want and just print it. In the end, we stuck them onto a material lab compare documentation to see how these different setups affect the printing time.
We got to know different softwares as well while the little printers were working. Onshape has caught our attention as it is a collaborative platform, similar to Figma for screen design. It is a quite complex CAD system, of course at first didn’t work out how I wanted but it needs some time to be discovered obviously.
We had a fun day, but to be honest I feel again that tech input that doesn’t support team ideas is a bit waste of time in this sense. We may use 3D printing as the fabrication method for our wearable, and if so, this superficial knowledge won’t be enough to carry through…
