Bring your product designs into the real world with rapid prototyping. Get a close look at the machinery and the techniques, such as 3D printing, machining, and injection molding.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Understanding design software and web resources
- Designing parts for prototyping
- Exploring the prototyping workflow
- Choosing a prototyping process
- Using 3D printing software
- Using an FDM-style 3D printer
- Printing with a PolyJet printer
- Working with stereolithographic (SLA) parts
- Working with powder-printed parts
- Understanding the prototype machining process
- Understanding how a computer-numerical-control (CNC) mill is set up
- Exploring how a CNC lathe is run
- Working with computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software for part programming
- Exploring CNC prototyping services
- Understanding makes and types of CNC machines
- Understanding resin-casting basics
- Building a silicone mold
- Exploring materials and equipment for molding
- Molding a part
- Reviewing resources for resin casting
- Understanding injection molding
- Setting up an injection-molding machine
- Injection molding a plastic part
- Building an injection mold
- Printing full-sized 2D patterns
- Introducing 2D prototyping techniques
- Shape checking with 2D prototyping
- Understanding 3D scanning
- Using a laser scanner
- Using a touch-probe scanner
- Wrapping up
Taught by
Gabriel Corbett
