Bronz Imprimare 3D · 2021
DefeXtiles Tehnică de Fabricare Textilă
by Jack Forman
- A' Design Award de Bronz 2021 in Imprimare 3D
- CLIENT: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,223
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About DefeXtiles Tehnică de Fabricare Textilă
DefeXtiles este o tehnică pentru producerea de textile subțiri și flexibile pe imprimante 3D standard. Metoda controlează sub-extrudarea astfel încât se formează mici aglomerări cu fire fine între ele. Golurile periodice rezultate conferă țesăturii imprimate un aspect asemănător textilelor, respirabilitate, flexibilitate și elasticitate, chiar și în cazul materialelor rigide precum acidul polilactic. Textilele sunt imprimate perpendicular pe platforma de imprimare, astfel încât se pot realiza forme plisate și curbate. Aplicațiile includ îmbrăcăminte, interfețe tangibile și fluturași de badminton. Filamentul conductiv poate încorpora trasee de circuite în material.
About the A' Design Award de Bronz
DefeXtiles Tehnică de Fabricare Textilă a câștigat A' Design Award de Bronz, o recunoaștere extrem de prestigioasă acordată designurilor remarcabile care se disting prin creativitate, ingeniozitate și istețime. Câștigătorii Bronzului sunt artefacte din plin pricepute și izbitor de creative, care atestă experiența vastă, imaginația și resursele designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca DefeXtiles Tehnică de Fabricare Textilă să fie un obiect foarte apreciat, admirat și prețuit, remarcabil de profesionist și inovator. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Bronz încorporează cele mai bune practici din artă, știință, design și tehnologie și este excelent prin atenția la detalii. DefeXtiles Tehnică de Fabricare Textilă satisface splendid nevoile, atinge dorințele, vrăjește sentimentele și stârnește curiozitatea.
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.
