DefeXtiles Technique de fabrication textile by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Technique de fabrication textile by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Impression 3D Competition Category.

BronzeImpression 3D· 2021

DefeXtiles Technique de fabrication textile

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Impression 3D Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Technique de fabrication textile

DefeXtiles est une technique permettant de produire des textiles fins et souples sur des imprimantes 3D standard. La méthode contrôle la sous-extrusion de manière à former de petites gouttes reliées entre elles par de fins filaments. Les interstices périodiques ainsi obtenus confèrent au tissu imprimé une apparence textile, une respirabilité, une souplesse et une élasticité, même avec des matériaux rigides tels que l'acide polylactique. Les textiles sont imprimés perpendiculairement au plateau d'impression, ce qui permet de réaliser des formes plissées et courbes. Les applications comprennent les vêtements, les interfaces tangibles et les volants de badminton. Un filament conducteur permet d'intégrer des pistes de circuit dans le tissu.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

DefeXtiles Technique de fabrication textile est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. DefeXtiles Technique de fabrication textile est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. DefeXtiles Technique de fabrication textile satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

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