Gangsa Cetak 3D · 2021
DefeXtiles Teknik Pambuatan Tekstil
by Jack Forman
- A' Design Award Gangsa 2021 in Cetak 3D
- CLIENT: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,223
- Verification code 24A063C584 · Verify this award
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About DefeXtiles Teknik Pambuatan Tekstil
DefeXtiles adolah suatu teknik untuak mampakuek tekstil nan tipih sarato lentuak (fleksibel) manggunokan printer 3D biaso. Metoda iko mangontrol under-extrusion sahinggo tabantuak gumpalan-gumpalan ketek jo helai-helai aluih di antaronyo. Celah-celah baulang nan taruih tabantuak manyababkan kain nan diprint mampunyoi tampilan sarupo tekstil, dapek banafeh, lentuak, sarato dapek maranggang, wolaupun manggunokan bahan nan kaku sarupo asam polilaktik (polylactic acid). Tekstil ko diprint sacaro tagak taradok bidang print (print bed), sahinggo bantuak nan bapangkeh atau bakelok dapek dihasialkan. Panarapannyo mancakuik pakaian, antarmuko nan bisa disantuah (tangible interfaces), sarato shuttlecock. Filamen nan bisa manghantakan aruih listrik (conductive filament) pun dapek dibanamkan ka dalam kain untuak mambantuak jajak rangkaian elektronik.
About the A' Design Award Gangsa
DefeXtiles Teknik Pambuatan Tekstil adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. DefeXtiles Teknik Pambuatan Tekstil dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. DefeXtiles Teknik Pambuatan Tekstil mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso ingin tahu.
Press Kit
- 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.
