6. Computational Couture¶

This week has started with understanding 3D prnter in depth as each 3d printer can be helpful for secific tasks and felemens have variety. What is espicial on this week is using some computational softwares for design such as Rhino and Grasshopper to make geometries ,shapes and hack the 3d printer to print on fabric. " there are some 3D printer you meight use if intrested in textile print and designedd to be freindly for fabric such as " Bamboo 3D printer " however in lab have other 3d printers such as Ultimaker and could used on fabric with some hacking method will be explained later here.

Lab Referances for 3D- print on fabric¶

Mesh , TPU , PLA

TPU : Is great for printing flexible objects that can be bend and free-design. it used in many industry even the medicine feild. the nice news it is used today in 3d-printed textile . Intrestead to read about TPU? Click Here

PLA : Considered sustainable matrerial to be used with 3d printing as it known as biodegradable thermoplastic.as it made from made from renewable resources like corn starch or sugarcane. to read more Click Here

Some Youtube videos¶

Here are some Youtube videos meight help you diffrenciate the 3d print .

Research & Ideation¶

SOFTWARES¶

Process and workflow¶

Print on Fabric¶

The logic behind printing on fabric is mainly related to the technique used. In this case, I am using industrial printers such as the Ultimaker S5 and Prusa XL.

For this experiment, I used Mesh and tulle fabric and for printing a technique called the sandwich method, where the fabric is placed between printed layers so it can bond with the filament during printing. is about : 1. Launch the printing 2. Print the first 2 layers 3. Pause the printer (manual or software pre settings) 4. Fix the Tulle to the printer 5. Resume the printer

Butterfly¶

Concept behind this process is something known as morphogenetic design By observing natural patterns and translating them through design. And for more exploration it could be taken depth integrated with Fibonacci equation for design evolution.

Technical issue¶

As you can see after i uploaded the vertex lines to rhino. it shown as cracked and not smooth which could be an issue in 3d printing could be avoided. After trying to smooth the lines and extrude i decided to go back rhino and start diffrent.

Solve Technical issue¶

Back rhino and started from scratch by remove the out-line wing of he butterfly and keep the internal pattern. then i used a command on rhino rebuild to smooth the cracked and shaky lines to have a smooth lines.

Ultimaker 3D print settings¶

Now it is time to export the ready design from Rhino in STL format to import inside Ultimaker Cura software . then adjust the 3d printing setting inside cura as you can see below ! oNE OF Important thing is having initrial layer as the machine will pause for a while after initial layer as it will help me put the mesh fabric to print the second layer on mesh - remamber this we name as a sandwich methyod which make the fabric inside two layers of 3d print which makes the 3d printed edesign stick well on fabric.