Gimbal

Forget to tack your beer? Tired of coffee spilling jibes?  Designed for Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), printed in one piece, the gimbaled bevy holder is here to save your day and let you rest at ease during those trying moments. Cocktail sailing during non-cocktail breezes is just one gimbal holder away. Snaps onto a typical… Continue reading Gimbal

Vegan Cheese box

Stylish 3d-printed fridge box for the cheesiest of your vegan cheeses No-one wants a dried out cheese. Keep your vegan cheeses fresh, ready-to-eat, and fast-action sliceable for your cheesy sandwich pleasure with this support-free additively manufacturable fridge box. This vegan cheese fridge box is designed with a typical Violife block in mind but will work… Continue reading Vegan Cheese box

Pannier Mount

Karrimor Pannier Redesign A lightweight, strong and minimalist bike bag mount is difficult to come by. Please send innovative ideas my way. I received an inquiry about reproducing, via 3d printing, a pannier mount from a vintage Karrimor brand bag. When I received the photos of the original design, I instantly thought that there must… Continue reading Pannier Mount

1896

Kutter-Jolle, Albert Anderson This small-boat design by Albert Anderson will be my first full size boat printed using FFF (fused filament fabrication). The design has been modeled from the original drawings into Autodesk Fusion 360. A prototype has been designed and sliced to use minimum support and printed at 8 percent scale to show the… Continue reading 1896

Topology optimization and FEA

Topology optimization takes a series of steps from original shape to optimized result. Either in Altair inspire or Autodesk Fusion 360, the programs have a very straightforward workflow already laid out as a linear progression … We want to minimize mass while maintaining stiffness. In this case we must take into consideration all features that must… Continue reading Topology optimization and FEA

Loket 4

CAD to printed prototype There is a customer in need of a 3d printed prototype of a toy train. The customer’s desire is to compare the 3d printed PLA version of the design with one that has been machined traditionally out of stainless steel. They supply us with a CAD drawing in STP file format… Continue reading Loket 4