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7. Computational Couture

INSPIRATION

My INSPIRATION in art is dinosaurs of Tim Ashkar

Tim Ashkar He is a multicultural artist, specializing in portraying the beauty and intelligence of all women and animals, especially dinosaurs.

He specializes in the beauty of the heavens; I like all his art work. He is a great inspiration for me.

This is the website page for him Tim Ashkar.

ASSIGNMENT

This week we use 3D design and 3D printing parametric design to generate different geometric shapes.

TOOLS

DESIGN

First, to create these dinosaurs I used fusion 360 to draw the outline with the fourth tool in the tools bar (spline).

Then I selected each shape alone to explore different thicknesses, extruding the shapes at 1 mm, 2 mm, and 1.5 mm to create different 3D dinosaurs.

In some dinosaurs, I extruded the outlines and shapes inside the dinosaurs.

Workflow for the 3D shapes in fusion 360 :

  • Draw the 2D sketch with fusion
  • Choose the top face to draw in it
  • Then finish the 2D sketch in fusion
  • Go to solid menu to extrude the shapes you have
  • Select the second tool in the tools bar "extrude"
  • Then put the thickness you want "I put here 1.5 and 2 mm thickness"
  • Finally you can select enter and now you have 3D shape with simple tools
  • Export the body as STL file for 3D printing

SLICING WITH CURA

CURA is a slicer for 3D printing for transforming the STL file to G-code. We use Cura with the Printer Ultimaker.

CURA settings:

Ultimaker S5
Material: TPU 95

Print speed: 40
Layer Hight: 0.1
Infill: 20%
Retraction distance: 6 mm
Retraction speed: 15
printing temperature 228C

Adhesion type: Skirt

I try to use a small size for the first try. You should check many things before starting printing.

  • The thickness of the wall
  • The size of the design fits
  • Fit to the build plate
  • There is enough space to print
  • You can rotate in the way you want
  • Printing speed

CURA

The CURA gives you these details before printing

  • Time
  • Grams of material
  • The size of the print
  • Meters of material used

I plan to print my design on stretchable fabric, and I manually paused the printer after one layer. Then I clipped the fabric to the built with metallic clips and stretched the fabric as much as possible.

RESULT


Then continue printing, the dinosaurs are ready now!

Tools and material:

  • Clips
  • Mesh stretchable fabric
  • TPU filament 95

The 3D model for the dinosaurs.


dinosaurs by shahed_j on Sketchfab


I used fusion 360 here again to create different dinosaurs with different techniques. This time my only use the outline to create solid extrusions.


Workflow for 3D shapes in fusion 360 360 :

  • Draw the 2D sketch with fusion
  • Choose the top face to draw in it
  • Then finish the 2D sketch in fusion
  • Go to solid to extrude the shapes you have
  • Select the second tool in the tools bar "extrude"
  • Then put the thickness you want I put here 0.6 mm
  • Finally you can select enter and now you have 3D shape with simple tools
  • Export dinosaurs as STL file for Cura

SLICING WITH CURA

I experimented with slicing techniques to create textures to my dinosaurs playing with the infill settings and densities.

In order to do that I put zero to top and bottom layers and thickness to see a kind of different fabric being generated in the preview.

CURA

The CURA gives you these details before printing.

For my design I only need 1 Gram of material of elastic TPU!

Cura settings:

Ultimaker S5
Material: TPU 95

Print speed: 40
Layer Hight: 0.1
Infill: 20%
Retraction distance: 6 mm
Retraction speed: 15
printing temperature 228C

Adhesion type: None


THE SAME WITH FABRIC

I used the same G-code for printing the dinosaurs on fabric after clipping the mesh on the built plate.

This is the result of my 3D shapes for the flat animals.


Animals by shahed_j on Sketchfab


FLOWERS

I had 3 vector files on my computer that I used for past projects and I wanted to experiment with that during this week.

For the 2D sketch and 3D shape :

  • I used here illustrator to open the files export them as SVG
  • I inserted the SVG files in fusion sketch
  • Choose the top face to edit the file
  • Then finish the 2D sketch in fusion to create solid bodies extruding the shapes you have
  • Select the second tool in the tools bar "extrude"
  • Then put the thickness you want "I put here 1 mm thickness" to create a mesh
  • Finally you can select enter and now you have 3D shape with simple tools that you can export as STL one by one

Then I use fusion 360 I select all to extrude the shapes for 1 mm to be 3D shapes.

Then I put the design in the CURA to slicing the design with TPU elastic material.

I planned to print one flower band alone and one on a piece of velvet fabric.

CURA settings

Ultimaker S5
Material: TPU 95

Print speed: 40
Layer Hight: 0.1
Infill: 100%
Retraction distance: 6 mm
Retraction speed: 15
printing temperature 228C

Adhesion type: none


I put my fabric on the printer then I put some tape to stick it in place.

The printed part is ready but the one on the fabric it's not sticking very good. The nozzle went inside to the fabric and create some engraving.

Mabey it's because the kind and the thickness of the fabric!

FINAL RESULT !

My flowers printed are very flexible and can be used for different applications.

3D shape for the FLOWERS PATTERN!


flowers pattern by shahed_j on Sketchfab


CIRCLES

I wanted to try different material then I used PLA filament to create something rigid.

I started here to use fusion 360.

I created a circle and I used the revolve command to create a "torus" for creating my pattern later.

Then I make it into a solid.

And I used the pattern command to clone the torus around one axis for 11 times.

The torus got combined into 1 body that I exported it as STL file.

Now you can use CURA to slicing the STL file and get the G-code for printing.

Now it's ready to print and make your own shapes 3D.

I used the same file to print one flower alone and one with on stretchable white fabric. I clipped the fabric before with the clips and manually paused the printer after 1 layer. Then resumed the printing.

Final Result

Tools and software :

Ultimaker S5
Material: PLA

Print speed: 40
Layer Hight: 0.1
Infill: 20%
Retraction distance: 6 mm
Retraction speed: 70
printing temperature 200C

Adhesion type: none

Finally the 3D model!

Circles by shahed_j on Sketchfab

ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY

I wanted also the explore Arabic CALLIGRAPHY on stretch fabric.

This is my reference vector file in my computer.

Fusion 360

I imported the SVG in fusion and then I made it solid by extruding 1 mm then I exported the mesh as STL file.

CURA settings

Ultimaker S5
Material: TPU 95

Print speed: 40
Layer Hight: 0.1
Infill: 100%
Retraction distance: 6 mm
Retraction speed: 15
printing temperature 228C

Adhesion type: none

I decide to print calligraphy on black fabric that I clipped on the bed at the beginning.


Palastine calligraphy by shahed_j on Sketchfab

ENJOY this week in 3D PRINTING !