3D Printing

Additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) or additive layer manufacturing (ALM) is the industrial production name for 3D printing, a computer controlled process that creates three dimensional objects by depositing materials, usually in layers.

Test cube

First test cube design

Testing the limits of a 3d printer

Final Gif

RAP are my initials

Final cube print

Mostly successful with minor faulty

Roller chain project

Roller chain bit

Roller chain link

Slicer

Final Print (Success)

Roller chain project (5 bit)

Drawings/design Ideas

These were mainly random ideas that I had come up with put on paper. I originally had an idea to have them detachable but later learned that the chains could not detatch.

Designs + Final choice design

The design(s) on the left side of the image were my final choices. The others were similar ideas that branched from the design.

Note: Unfortunately my attempts to create a 5 bit roller chain were unsuccessful. In total I had made 5 attempts which most of the remaining plastic of the other 3 I had to discard. I tried changing printers, designs, temp, height, nothing really worked. The attempts that I had not documented all looked very similar to the one I had taken pictures of below despite which printer I used or method.

First attempt (Fail)

For my first attempt I believe that I did not have enough stability for the product to stick to the pad which had caused the print to shift around the plate. Noticing this I stopped the print from continuing and managed to save these plastic remains.

5th attempt(Fail)

For my 5th attempt I have no clue on what I did wrong because the time that It had corrupted was when I was away from the printer. And by the success of the test chain and no clear source of the problem it theoretically should have worked just fine.

Slicer GIF

There was a stability error which seemed to be a problem for a while until the G-code path error occurred which seemed to be the main problem. Only thing was that the conflict was on the very final layer (36) which had nothing to do with the first few layers that had issues).

Solidworks GIF

Every thing in solidworks worked fine, I did have an issue with the drawing of the keychain with my name. The assembly would not transfer my changes for some reason and I ended up scraping the changes which Is why there is a blank In between the tag and chain.

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