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Prototyping Crystals (3D Printed )

Computational Design

mimicking crystals in different designs in order to 3D print them

1. Bubbly Geometry

Main Front piece/ strophium

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cuts made like this in order to optimize the spiral print mode as I am printing without any support nor infill with minimal amount of material ... in order to achieve that it was support

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3D designed to be 3D printed strophium acts like a shield that all super hero be wearing and defenders so that was the concept behind it's design /vibes but with the geometry of crystals of the dead sea

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BLLURA MUSA had to split the full 3D front piece into 5 parts so I can manage to print spiralized with no infill no support

Main tiara

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However all the supports I designed manually on meshmixer ended up on the slicer with the model needing 44 g of PLA material and the auto generated support from ultimaker with the model 45 g of PLA so wasn't worth the risk as this might work and might not

2. Branching/Nerves like Geometry

Tracing real Deadsea Crystals by Batool Alrushdan

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Head Headpiece

I this geometry used it on the headpiece too nly on the side of it

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Bracelet

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Wing

this one was via WASP Industrial so I redesigned the spacing between the lines to be coherent with the nozzle size which is 3MM to it can go 2 passes and continuous lines

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Glow in the dark on the dress

then I further developed this branching design to use on the rest of the dress - on tulle - 3D printed glow in the dark

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Here I used

Glow in the Dark Filament glow-in-the-dark-filament insert image from BLLURA MUSA OR FILAMENT PRICE STARTING FROM: $17.99 for 1.75 mm, 1kg spool

The name needs little introduction as this fun filament does exactly what it says on the label—it glows in the dark. It won’t glow indefinitely though, as the 3D printed object needs exposing to a light source to charge it. Once charged it will emit light in whatever colors you have made your part in. A great use for this material it to decorate children’s bedrooms or to make Halloween themes, and other such creative ideas. It’s a safe, environmentally-friendly filament, making it harmless for everyone to use. One of the major drawbacks is that glow-in-the-dark material is abrasive. The problem with abrasive filaments is that they can quickly wear out nozzles, especially brass. If you plan to use glow-in-the-dark 3D printing material often, be sure to install a hardened steel nozzle.

Glow-in-the-dark print temperature range: 180-240 °C

Bra Strip

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Flexible, TPE Filament tpe-filament insert image here too PRICE STARTING FROM: $31.99 for 1.75 mm, 1kg spool

TPE 3D printer filament is easily the most flexible of all the printer materials. It is ‘super stretchy’ because of the thermoplastic elastomers, or TPE for short. It has such high elasticity properties that it feels like real rubber, easily springing back into shape like an elastic band. TPE is great to use with most FDM 3D printers. If you need to fabricate stretchable 3D parts that can endure more punishment than any regular ABS or PLA, this is your material.

TPE print temperature range: 225°C – 235°C

3. Sharp/distorted Geometry

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4. Edgy Geometry

for this one I wanted to dedicate it to the grown crystals

3D printing setting + Fabrication

Main front piece

However surely the WASP was the best choice to 3d print this large wearable

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all the other 4 segments/parts/divisions of the main front piece / strophium were printed with the exact same settings

Bra Strap

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Glow in dark branching

These were used on the tulle dress in hips line down inspired from warriors /defenders and hero's BLLURA MUSA

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Head piece

Horns / sharp geometries

They were printed with spiralized technique to have them hallow from inside so I can insert light as I showed in week 10 BLLURA MUSA

Main tiara

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I didn't remove the support after printing as I used it to grow real crystals on that support (and that's what unique about this headpiece mixture of 3D printed crystals and Grown crystals )

Sides of the headpiece

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Army of crystals - WASP

I tried printing the small crystals both on ultuimaker and wasp and this was the wasp experiment (the ultimaker was more convenient for such smaller ones)

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Army of crystals - Ultimaker

mimicking crystals in different designs and 3D printing them

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Wings

these were printed on the industrial Wasp as each wing is one meter in length!

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Printed with spiralized technique too that's why as mentioned above was important via the design to be same as nozzle size if one pass or double if 2 passes (made it 2 passes as I didn't want it to be fragile because I knew it would be on the characters back and big in size)

Assembly

Files to Download

Main front piece

Head piece

main

Head piece

sides

Horns and other Crystals

Bra Strap

Bra Strap adapter

to adjust the height

Hooks

attached to the front main piece so attach to it the Bra Strap

Dress branching geomtry

Wing

Bracelet


Last update: 2022-07-16