Finally, it is concluded that an open source software and hardware tool chain can provide low-cost industrial manufacturing of complex metal-polymer composite-based products.įused Deposition Modelling (FDM), an additive manufacturing-based fabrication approach was explored for constructing Marine Engineeering components in three-dimensional structures using Polylactic acid (PLA) as filament. The results show that utilizing a multi-polymer head system for multi-component manufacturing reduces manufacturing time and reduces the embodied energy of manufacturing. Composite parts are evaluated from the technical viability of manufacturing and quality.
This paper provides (1) free and open source hardware and (2) software for printing systems that achieves metal wire embedment into a polymer matrix 3D-printed part via a novel weaving and wrapping method using (3) OpenSCAD and parametric coding for customized g-code commands. This study describes a manufacturing technology that enables a constrained set of polymer-metal composite components. G-codes) to the Cartesian coordinate based 3D printer and the required physical parts can be printed.Īs low-cost desktop 3D printing is now dominated by free and open source self-replicating rapid prototype (RepRap) derivatives, there is an intense interest in extending the scope of potential applications to manufacturing. The PRONTERFACE software sends the instructions (i.e.
By using CURA software, the STL file is converted into G-codes and then it is sent to PRONTERFACE software, which is the interface software between the computer and the Cartesian coordinate based 3D printer. The parts are modeled in the CATIA V5 R20 software, and it is converted into STL (Stereo lithography) file. PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) is used as the filament in this project for 3D printing of Mechanical parts and also the above mentioned raw filaments can be used. The Fused Deposition Modeling is an advanced manufacturing process uses the thermoplastics, ABS, Poly Vinyl Alcohol (PVA), polycarbonate (PC), PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) and ULTEM 9085.
In this project work, Design and development of Cartesian coordinate based 3D printer is done for the manufacturing of sample parts by using Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) process. 3D printer can produce parts layer by layer with the addition of the raw materials used by executing the NC-codes of a CAD designed model, which is controlled by a computer. So, to eliminate these problems Additive Manufacturing is used, which converts 3D CAD models into physical objects. By the use of subtractive processes, there is a lot of scrap and also the accuracy of parts is not up to the mark. Now a day, manufacturing of complex parts have become a major role in industries.