{"id":180712,"date":"2021-05-09T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/?p=180712"},"modified":"2021-04-12T03:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T03:10:49","slug":"dynamic-3d-printing-platform-concept-dramatically-reduces-supports-in-fff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/dynamic-3d-printing-platform-concept-dramatically-reduces-supports-in-fff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic 3D Printing Platform Concept Dramatically Reduces Supports in FFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a story published on April 1st (but we performed all the necessary anti-April Fools checks and can now confirm it), researchers in USC Viterbi\u2019s Daniel J. Epstein Dep<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">art<\/a>ment of Industrial and Systems Engineering have revealed a low-cost reusable support method based on a dynamic <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ing<\/a> platform which reduces the need for wasteful supports in material extrusion\/deposition, vastly improving cost-effectiveness and sustainability for <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The work, led by Yong Chen, professor of industrial and systems engineering and PhD student Yang Xu, has been published in the Additive Manufacturing journal.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas traditional extrusion <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ing<\/a> prints layer-by-layer, directly onto a static metal surface, the new prototype instead uses a programmable, dynamically-controlled surface made of moveable metal pins to replace the printed supports. The pins rise up as the printer progressively builds the product. Chen said that testing of the new prototype has shown it saves around 35% in materials used to print objects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work with bio<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical<\/a> doctors who <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a> using biomaterials to build tissue or organs,\u201d Chen said. \u201cMany of the materials they use are very expensive\u00ad\u2013we\u2019re talking small bottles that cost between $500 to $1000 each.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor standard extrusion printers, the materials cost is around $50 per kilogram, but for bioprinting, it\u2019s more like $50 per gram. So if we can save 30% on material that would have gone into printing these supports, that is a huge cost saving for 3-D printing for bio<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical<\/a> purposes,\u201d Chen said.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mmYzqm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new, dynamically controlled base for 3D printing will reduce the need for printed supports, cutting waste and saving time. Image: Yong Chen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">environment<\/a>al and cost impacts of material wastage, traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ing<\/a> processes using supports is also time-consuming, Chen said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eaeaea7a; padding: 15px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: flex; align-items: center; border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: -1px 4px 20px 0px #dedede; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<div style=\"flex: 1; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 14px;\">Manufacturing on Demand<\/h4>\n<div style=\"display: block;\">Realize your creation with full capabilities, expand your business from prototyping to mass production.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a style=\"background-color: #0baee8; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; border-radius: 4px;\" href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i class=\"fa-fw auxicon auxicon-cloud-upload\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> Get Quote<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ing<\/a> complex shapes, half of the time you are building the p<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">art<\/a>s that you need, the other half of the time you\u2019re building the supports. So with this system, we\u2019re not building the supports. Therefore, in terms of printing time, we have a savings of about 40%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chen said that similar prototypes developed in the past relied on individual motors to raise each of the <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/mechanics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mechanic<\/a>al supports, resulting in highly <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">energy<\/a>-intensive products that were also much more expensive to purchase, and thus not cost-effective for <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a>ers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you had 100 moving pins and the cost of every motor is around $10, the whole thing is $1,000, in addition to 25 control boards to control 100 different motors. The whole thing would cost well over $10,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research team\u2019s new prototype works by running each of its individual supports from a single motor that moves a platform. The platform raises groups of metal pins at the same time, making it a cost-effective solution. Based on the product design, the program\u2019s software would tell the user where they need to add a series of metal tubes into the base of the platform. The position of these tubes would then determine which pins would raise to defined heights to best support the <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a>ed product, while also creating the least amount of wastage from printed supports. At the end of the process, the pins can be easily removed without damaging the product.<\/p>\n<p>Chen said the system could also be easily adapted for large-scale manufacturing, such as in the <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/automotive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">automotive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/aerospace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aerospace<\/a>, and yacht industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are already building material extrusion\/deposition printers for large size car and ship bodies, as well as for <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/consumer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consumer<\/a> products such as <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/furniture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">furniture<\/a>. As you can imagine, their building times are really long\u2014we\u2019re talking about a whole day,\u201d Chen said. \u201cSo if you can save half of that, your manufacturing time could be reduced to half a day. Using our approach could bring a lot of benefits for this type of <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D print<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chen\u2019s team recently applied for a patent for the new technology. The research was co-authored by Ziqi Wang, previously a visiting student at USC, from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL Switzerland, and Siyu Gong from USC Viterbi.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; color: grey;\">* This article is reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dprintingmedia.network\/dynamic-3d-printing-platform-concept-dramatically-reduces-supports-in-fff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D Printing Media Network<\/a>. If you are involved in infringement, please contact us to delete it.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"far fa-fw fa-user\"><\/i> Author: Davide Sher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a story published on April 1st (but we performed all the necessary anti-April Fools checks and can now confirm it), researchers in USC Viterbi\u2019s Daniel J. 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