Design and 3D Printing Script
Learn to design the microfactory.
- What will you learn?
- Design an object in FreeCAD using sketches using its robust sketcher functionality,
- then extrude it to 3D,
- and add some more features.
- Then import into cura,
- and see how the layers look.
- Then transform it (magical fade-in to reality, the opposite of virtual fade-in as in Lulzbot Cura) to reality
- Make more parts, (3D printing time lapse of a full 18" bed)
- and then build a 3D printer with them (time lapse of frame knocking in)
- Using our Modular Universal Axis
- And controller module.
- So you can print more things, like respirators
- and ventilators to help in the COVID struggle.
- Or start a business from plastic waste (a bale of plastic garbage drops in)
- We go back to FreeCAD (show 1" universal axis)
- To make larger machines (show large axis being hung)
- So we make a CNC Torch Table (Blender animation of fire from the torch)
- We don't use an extruder (show Universal Gearless)
- But instead a torch head (show torch lighting on the Universal Axis)
- So we can cut metal - such as large blades for the plastic shredder (show sweet blade cuts, and 100 blades)
- And we print geardownds to drive the shredder (show geardowns printing)
- Which we then assemble (handling large 12" gears
- so we can drive the shredder with any corded drill
- With plastic shreds, we run our filament maker, which we 3D printed parts for, and made from low cost lumber.
- Now you're ready to recycle plastic. To make shoes. To make large bearings. To make more plastic lumber...
- The end.
- No really. That is only the beginning.
- Rewards - $300 - all 3D printed parts for the 3D printer, torch, shredder, and filament maker
- Add controller and all hardware, 3D print head, including CNC torch head - for the basic microfactory - $1000. You bring the metal, corded drill, and gas bottles for torch.
- Assembled microfactory - $5k.
