The RAPID 2013 Conference & Exposition Directory - Society of ...

11:30–11:55 am
Evaluating Your 3D Printing Options:
Advice from the Experts
Todd A. Grimm, President, T.A. Grimm & Associates
Kevin L. Ayers, BS, Mechanical Engineer, FBI
This presentation will guide the attendee on how best to obtain
the right technology to meet their needs. We will start by
going through a checklist identifying their organization's key
requirements for the system.
• How to thoroughly investigate all 3D printer options
• How to best reach out to salespeople, users and
industry experts
• Explore the common pitfalls in the industry
• Learn how to best hedge your bet before, during,
and after the selection
Creative Uses for Art, Architecture and More
10–11:55 am
New materials are contributing to thinking outside the box for
product designers. This session will present applications for
additive manufacturing/3D printing used in art, jewelry making,
fashion, entertainment and the emerging maker community.
10:30–10:55 am
Making It Personal
Sean Wise, President, RepliForm Inc.
Evaluate the suitability of several additive manufacturing
methods to make personal figurines or statuettes that would
be of sufficient quality to display in the formal living spaces in a
consumer’s home or office, just as portraits are displayed now.
The figurine geometric data was submitted to several traditional
service bureaus and equipment manufacturers along with several
consumer-level 3D printer manufacturers with the instructions
to give us the best quality output the machines are capable of.
These were returned to us for evaluation and application of a
copper electroplated coating. This presentation will review the
quality vs. costs to produce a 3D-printed resin figurine on the
systems that were tested, along with the suitability of each for
plating. We will look at this trade-off for printing of individual
pieces on personal printers and industrial additive manufacturing
systems as well as the cost of full trays or vats of unique parts
on the industrial systems. This was done since a combination of
personal and industrial printers might allow a studio doing the 3D
data capture a reasonable way of handling peak and slack times
for the finished items that might be given as gifts.
10–10:25 am
The Factory 2.0: The RAPIDLY Evolving Relationship
Between Art and Additive Manufacturing
Murray Moss, Curator and Creative Director, Moss Bureau
This presentation will illuminate the RAPIDly evolving relationship
between art and additive manufacturing. The interactive
installation at the Warhol Museum will show the intersection
of Andy’s Warhol’s now-iconic innovations in art with the new
possibilities today.
The presentation will also focus on innovations which are
changing how art is conceived and made by highlighting
proprietary Mammoth Stereolithography technology. The
Mammoth printers have made previously unrealizable, mammoth
works of art a reality.
11–11:25 am
Merging Digital and Physical Processes in
Architectural Design and Fabrication
Madeline Gannon, Adjunct Instructor, School of Architecture,
Carnegie Mellon University
There is still a palpable disconnect between how architecture is
designed in the digital realm, and how it is realized in the physical
realm. A number of factors contribute to this gap, including a
virtual environment’s infinite scale, its autonomy from a tangible
context, and its lack of physical materiality. This presentation
addresses such issues through custom vision-based modeling
software that uses a 3D scanning/sensing/printing workflow to
merge digital processes in architectural design with physical
processes in fabrication. The application internalizes three layers
of physical information to simultaneously influence the digital
design. The first layer is a physical context that is 3D scanned
as the base geometry from which to design. The second layer
uses a depth camera to sense a designer’s hand gestures, and
brings it into the virtual environment as a 3D controller. The third
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