3D Printing example

3D Printing example

Curriculum

Students will learn all about the exciting world of 3D design & printing.

We will explore where 3D printing is used in the real world, available software, types of printing material, how 3D printers work, future of 3D printing and more.

Then to the fun stuff! The majority of our time will be working on 3D design assignments, and printing things out of course.

Here is a draft outline of the things we will cover over the course of the camp:
  • Objectives
    • Students will become familiar with 3D printing industry, software and hardware
    • How how different types of printers work
    • Walk away with a few small prints of their own designs
  • Where is 3d Design used
    • Movies, cartoons
    • product design
    • Health industry
  • Types of software
    • Sketchup
    • 123d design
    • 123d creature
    • Formit
    • Tinkercad
    • Meshmixer
  • Types of Printers
    • Lazer cutting
    • CNC machine
    • Light sensitive Resin
    • Fused deposition modeling (FDM) or Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
  • Types of plastics
    • ABS PLA, PVA, wood, HIPS, light sensitive
  • What are 3d printers being used for?
    • houses, organs, cars, guns, toys
    • prototyping
  • Looking to the future
    • CMYK
    • Different types of materials, like recycled plastics
  • The different parts and functions of a printer
  • About 3d files
    • meshes, why you need to optimize triangle count
    • being water tight
    • reversed faces
  • How to work the printer, preparing files for printing
  • Basics of Sketchup
  • Gravity, supports and how to avoid them
Plane, lines and faces (what can be printed?)

  • Assignments
    • Chess pawn (project one on the TV)
    • House, stairs, windows
    • White house
    • Crazy Building (To be part of a city), Spheres, and ovals
    • Sculpt an alien in 123d creature
    • Cutting an object to reduce supports
    • Take a face in mesh mixer, and make it scary
    • Name tag, keychain
    • Find a thing in thingiverse and print it out
    • funky car
    • Pacman
    • Rook, with staircase
    • Sculpting. Add beefy arms to obj from thingiverse
    • 6 sided die
      • bonus, round the corners so it rolls a bit more
    • Stencil, find image you like, trace it in sketch up
    • Watch video on precision in sketchup
      • Lego piece
  • Bonus round
    • Dual extrusion print, sketch up logo
      • Checkered cube, like rubix cube
      • House with different colored roof
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