HIT Industrial Design Department Gains Speed, Accuracy and Creativity with Objet 3D Printing Technology - Objet - #1

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At a Glance Company: Industrial Design Department, Holon Institute of Technology URL: www.hit.ac.il/index_e.asp Location: Holon, Israel Industry: Education Challenges • Produce prototypes to demonstrate students’ designs projects, within tight time frames • Teach students how to use 3D printing technology, with minimal learning curve • Create prototypes that are highly precise and finely detailed Solution Eden260V 3D printing system from Objet Geometries Results • Products designed in Solidworks are perfectly replicated as 3D prototypes, with far greater precision and detail than was possible with manual prototyping • Students can test how internal parts, such as hinges, will act • Ability to produce prototypes quickly and easily enables students to focus more on design • helps build students’ skills and generates multiple varied models for marketing purposes Israel’s Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) is a fully accredited academic center dedicated to science, engineering and technology. More than 3,600 bachelors and masters degree students study in a wide range of disciplines, including Industrial design, mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, information science, and others. The Industrial Design Department, part of the School of Design, is the major user of the Objet 3D printer at HIT. Industrial Design students at HIT use SolidWorks CAD software to design parts and assemblies. For all presentations and projects assigned as part of the academic program, they need to create prototypes. “Mini Me” Project Showcases Students’ Creativity and Objet’s 3D Printing Capabilities Recently, Objet and HIT cooperated on a unique project with the dual aims of developing students’ 3D printing knowledge and generating a variety of innovative models that Objet could later use to showcase the capabilities of its PolyJet™ 3D printing technology. The “Mini Me” project challenged third-year industrial design students to create a figure or doll in their own image, using SolidWorks to design the piece and Objet’s Ede260V 3D printer to create the 3D model. According to the brief, the figure was to be inspired by the student’s characteristics and based on the concept of a designer toy, which is typically produced using vinyl. Objet planned to use the figures to showcase its capabilities to a market currently dominated by handmade toys. Twenty-five students and their professor participated in the project. They were given six weeks for design and a few additional weeks for 3D printing and testing, including a maximum of 10 hours each of 3D printing on the Eden260V printer. HIT’s onsite printing studio manager supported the students by advising them on the capabilities and limits of 3D printing, checking their SolidWorks files, and showing them how to use Objet Studio Software to ready the file for printing. As part of this, the students were shown how to position their designs so that printing would take the shortest possible time. The “Mini Me” figures were printed on the Eden260V 3D printer, using FullCure720 Transparent, TangoGray, VeroGray and VeroWhite model materials, and then painted with acrylic paints. HIT Industrial Design Department Gains Speed, Accuracy and Creativity with Objet 3D Printing Technology “Using Objet let us focus on the design aspects of our projects. We knew Objet can deliver accurate prototypes, quickly and easily” Ayala Bougay, 4th year industrial design student, Holon Institute of Technology Case Study