DefeXtiles Techneg Ffabrigo Tecstiliau by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Techneg Ffabrigo Tecstiliau by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award in Argraffu 3D Competition Category.

EfyddArgraffu 3D· 2021

DefeXtiles Techneg Ffabrigo Tecstiliau

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award Winner in Argraffu 3D Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Techneg Ffabrigo Tecstiliau

Mae DefeXtiles yn dechneg ar gyfer cynhyrchu tecstilau tenau, hyblyg ar argraffyddion 3D safonol. Mae'r dull yn rheoli tan-echdyniad fel bod smotiau bach yn ffurfio gyda edafedd main rhyngddynt. Mae'r bylchau cyfnodol sy'n deillio o hyn yn rhoi golwg debyg i decstilau i'r deunydd argraffedig, gan gynnig anadlu, hyblygrwydd ac ymestynadwyedd, hyd yn oed gyda deunyddiau anhyblyg fel asid polylactig. Argraffir y tecstilau'n berpendicwlar i wely'r argraffydd, fel y gellir creu ffurfiau plyg a chrwm. Mae cymwysiadau'n cynnwys dillad, rhyngwynebau diriaethol a siytlgocs. Gall ffilament dargludol blannu llwybrau cylched o fewn y ffabrig.

The Recognition

About the Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award

Mae DefeXtiles Techneg Ffabrigo Tecstiliau yn enillydd Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award, cydnabyddiaeth hynod fawreddog a roddir i ddyluniadau rhagorol sydd yn nodedig am greadigrwydd, dyfeisgarwch a chraffter. Mae enillwyr Efydd yn arteffactau medrus iawn a thrawiadol o greadigol sydd yn dilysu profiad helaeth, dychymyg a dyfeisgarwch eu dylunwyr. Disgwylir i DefeXtiles Techneg Ffabrigo Tecstiliau fod yn wrthrych uchel ei fri, a edmygir ac a anwylir, sydd yn nodedig o broffesiynol ac arloesol. Mae'r dyluniad buddugol hwn o Wobr Efydd A' Design Award yn ymgorffori arferion gorau mewn celf, gwyddoniaeth, dylunio a thechnoleg, ac yn rhagorol am ei sylw i fanylion. Mae DefeXtiles Techneg Ffabrigo Tecstiliau yn bodloni anghenion yn odidog, yn cyffwrdd â dyheadau, yn swyno teimladau ac yn apelio at chwilfrydedd.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: DefeXtiles is a rapid and low-cost technique to produce realistic high-fidelity textiles on 3D printers. In this work, we demonstrate that under-extrusion defects can be finely controlled to quickly print thin flexible textiles into complex 3D shapes. Our approach enables a myriad of applications including printing full sized garments, deformable tangible interfaces, and ultra-tough shuttlecocks.
Tags: textile, 3d print, lace, advanced manufacturing, fabric
Production Technology: In this paper, we demonstrate that under-extrusion can be leveraged to quickly print thin, flexible, textiles. Specifically, as the extrusion multiplier decreases, there exists an ideal regime where globs form with fine strands connecting them. The periodic gaps that arise from printing this way not only yields textile-like aesthetics and breathability, but also textile-like properties such as flexibility and stretchability even with classically rigid materials such as polylactic acid (PLA).
Design Challenge: To democratize access and ability to make 3D forms with textiles by developing a new technique that allows textiles to be 3D printed into complex 3-dimensional forms using unmodified commodity 3D printer and no new software.
Research: We present a new strategy, called DefeXtiles, to 3D print quasi-woven fabrics that are thin, flexible, and fast to fabricate. Since our approach prints the textiles perpendicular to the print bed, complex geometries can be produced including pleated, curved, and metamaterial structures. With our approach, a standard 3D printer can print decameters of fabric in a single print. The use of multi-material printers allows users to embed circuit traces into the textile via conductive filament.
Inspiration: For thousands of years, the manufacturing of textiles into shaped forms has remained largely the same; fiber becomes a fabric which is then constructed into a 3D object. The high-tech approach, machine knitting, uses expensive machines with a significant learning curve for use. The low-tech approach, classic sewing, requires painstaking processes. As such, there is a need for a fast and accessible approach to manufacture textiles into 3D forms.
Project Duration: Started in October 2019 in Cambridge Massachusettes, and finished in June 2020. The work will be presented and demoed at the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium 2020.
Operation Flow: This work has introduced a new approach to quickly print thin, flexible textiles composed of common 3D printing ma-terials with an unmodified 3D printer. Our approach com-bines the flexible, thin, and breathable properties of textiles with the affordances of 3D printing: rapid iteration, hands-free fabrication, and computer aided design. Through char-acterization, we demonstrate how our approach enables tun-ing of the mechanical and aesthetic properties through mate-rial and parameter selection. Through a series of applica-tions, we demonstrated the potential applicability of our approach for smart textiles, tangible online shopping, toys, fabric design, and everyday life.
Team Members: Jack Forman, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Hamilton Foryseth and Hiroshi Ishii