Functional Design for 3d Printing - Designing Printed Things for Everyday Use

✍ Scribed by Clifford Smyth

• Publisher: Clifford Smyth
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Functional Design for 3D Printing 3rd Edition is your guide to the intersection of design, 3d printing, and utility.

This volume will demonstrate design practices that expand the possibilities for durable, functional objects. Your functional models will print quickly and reliably, delivering the full potential of the “desktop factory”.

Functional Design for 3D Printing will help you to:

• Turn your ideas into practical designs that print reliably and assemble into durable, functional objects
• Maximize strength for utility and estimate working and failure load ratings
• Minimize printing time, material use, and weight
• Minimize the chance of print failure, ensuring reliable prints on a variety of machines and software
• Design printable hinges, latches, interlocking parts, and other functional elements
• Design printable electronic breadboards, prototypes, and simple components
• Integrate flexibility and multiple materials into your functional designs
• Solve bed adhesion and warping problems at the design level, improving print reliability
• Select the correct structural paradigm(s) for each application
• Know how and when to include dedicated support structures into your model for maximum printability

If you are not new to 3d printing, Functional Design for 3D Printing will present design principles and practices that will help you to quickly model functional, printable objects. This volume will help you to improve and accelerate your design and prototyping work-flow.

If you are a novice designer, Functional Design for 3D Printing will be a useful introduction, supplement, and reference for functional design. This volume will give you the technical framework for you to improve your expertise with a minimum of trial and error frustration and will be your go-to guide for design solutions.

120 illustrations, 234 pages.

This third edition is extensively improved and expanded from the second edition:

More than twice as many illustrations and 35% more text

Extensively rewritten for easier reading and comprehension

Updated with modern materials and technologies

Some words of praise from purchasers of the second edition:

“Unlike many other currently available books about 3D printing which are heavy with ra-ra encouragements about how great 3D printing is and how everyone can excel with a little effort, this book is simply page after page of useful information about the nitty-gritty aspects of actually trying to print good models. This is the kind of knowledge that beginning (and experienced) enthusiasts need to know to avoid any potential frustrations. Don't be put off by the rather short length of this book; there's more here than most other books that are hundreds of pages longer. Highly recommended.”

“Lots of solid information on best design practice and material properties. It's written in such a way that the information won't be out of date for a long time. If you're experienced at 3D printing this book will reaffirm the things you learned through trial and error, and probably teach you a few tricks you never thought of. If you're new to 3d printing or new at designing parts that will be 3D printed, this book will save you a ton of time and materials.”

“This book provides a wealth of rules, guidelines, and insights to help you create designs that print and behave properly. It does a wonderful job of explaining all the strange effects that can make even simple prints fail, and how to easily minimize or compensate for them.” …..

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction:
Note to professional users
Chapter I: The Medium
Designing for usability
The Palette: Materials for FFM manufacturing
The Canvas: Unique characteristics of FFM structures
Anisotropy
Slices of structure
The print nozzle… why it can matter in design
Shell and Infill specifications
Common infill geometries
Rectilinear:
Line:
Cubic:
Honeycomb:
Triangular:
Permeability
Chapter II: Designing for the FFM Process
Printer limitations
Unsupported structures
Print orientation and design refactoring
Model 1:
Model 2:
Model 3:
Model 4:
Bed adhesion
Overhanging structures
Bridging
Support Structures
Managing automatically generated support
Chapter III: Design For Strength
A brief primer in basic mechanical design
Force vs. stress
Types of stress
Tension:
Compression:
Shear:
Bending:
Torsion:
Stress localization
Corners, intersections, bosses, and ribs
Layer fusion
Cross-sectional characteristics
Determining failure and working loads
Chapter IV: Design Paradigms
Chapter V: Designing for fit
Chapter VI: Fastening and joinery
Screws and bolts
Joinery
Chapter VII: Functional Elements and Engineered features
Hinges
Latching assemblies
Multi-material Printing
Building light
Layers and slices
Shells: Perimeters and solid layers
Appendix I: Materials for FFM printing
Appendix IIA: Printing electrical circuits using Fused Filament Manufacturing (FFM)
Appendix IIB: Anisotropy in FFM Printing
Appendix IIC: Infill and strength
Appendix III: Fastener tables
Glossary:
About the author:
Note For book pirates (and for Kopimists)
Readers Notes