HIT Industrial Design Department Gains Speed, Accuracy and Creativity with Objet 3D Printing Technology - Objet - #2

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Hinges add movement to figure Ayala Bougay, one of the students who participated in the Mini Me project, wanted to create a figure with moving parts. After consulting with an Objet representative, she learned that she would be able to print the entire figure, moving parts and all, in a single run on Eden260V printer. “We were shown how objects could be printed within objects and the support material could be extracted through holes or gaps, enabling you to print your model in one piece,” Bougay recalled. “Using this information along with insight provided by an Objet representative on the possibilities and limitation of this system, Bougay came up with the idea of using hinges to allow her model to move into two different positions. “I determined that gaps of 0.3mm inside the hinges and 0.5mm to the sides of the hinges were required to be able to extract all of the support material. Whilst this was complicated to work out, the support of Objet gave me the determination to use the system to its fullest. I wanted to make sure that the doll would look good in each position and so had to work out the suitable angles for the hinges to sit at within the model. The fact that the material is translucent really helped me understand and visualize the design.” Success is in the details According to Bougay, Objet’s 3D printing process greatly enhanced her ability to turn her design into a successful miniature figure. “Objet enables us to produce prototypes far closer to final products than we have ever managed before,” she said. “Using Objet let us focus more on the design aspects, safe in the knowledge it would produce accurate prototypes, quickly and easily.” Bougay commented that one of the most noticeable advantages of 3D printing with Objet’s PolyJet Technology was the much shorter time needed to produce a prototype. “Previously we would spend hours in the workshop, producing prototypes by hand. Our prototypes were never precise and we were unable to produce the finer details that really make the difference in product design.” “Since Objet will produce a carbon copy of the design rendered in SolidWorks, our prototypes can now be an exact visual replica of a final design,” she said. “My doll did not even need to be test printed, thanks to the exceptional replication capabilities of the Objet technology.” “Via the use of Objet extensions within SolidWorks we can also test the way the printed model will react, such as the movements of the hinges. This has raised the bar for prototyping, as we know that anything designed, tested and visualized within SolidWorks will be faultlessly produced by Objet.” info@objet.com www.objet.com Objet Geometries Ltd. Headquarters 2 Holtzman st., Science Park, P.O Box 2496, Rehovot 76124, Israel T: +972-8-931-4314 F: +972-8-931-4315 Objet Geometries Inc. 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