Presentation of the project Vincent Duvert Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon from January 23 to March 16, 2012 Florian Ribon James Packer Caroline Naud Antoine Lubineau Third-year project Architecture of the project Three-dimensional modeling and printing project . . Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 1 / 25
Presentation of the project The VORTEX team of IRIT Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Recently acquired an uncalibrated Ultimaker 3D printer. VORTEX: Visual Objects: from Reality To EXpression, working on graphic computing, IRIT: a research institute in computer science from Toulouse, mostly . . . Architecture of the project Resources Objectives Clients Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 2 / 25
Presentation of the project Open-source modeler able to import, model, deform and correct Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Some artists from Artilect that we visited or artists students. The VORTEX team, . . Final users . Print as realistically as possible, Export meshes to the printer, Interactions using the touchscreen, virtual 3D objects, . Architecture of the project . Main goals of the project . Resources Objectives Clients Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 3 / 25 . Main client’s requests
Presentation of the project Mathematics department Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Computer with dual-touch screen Acer T231H. ENSEEIHT, Ultimaker 3D printer with a roll of PLA plastic in room F117 at . . Material resources . Project manager: Caroline Naud Several followed the “multimedia” option in third year Five final year students at ENSEEIHT, Computer Science and Applied Architecture of the project . . Project team . Resources Objectives Clients Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 4 / 25
Presentation of the project sent to the printer, The associated instructions are generated, . . 3 The corresponding G-code is . . . 4 The object is created by laying down successive layers of material. V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Three-dimensional modeling and printing project 2 . Architecture of the project Resources Project management Main specifications Our technical solutions and results Calibration of the printer Application and printing limitations Clients Objectives 5 / 25 layers, . Process description . . . 1 The mesh is sliced into . Ultimaker 3D printer
Presentation of the project Modeler: to import/create STL and PLY meshes and to pre-process Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Printer: to create the final object. such as the temperature of the nozzle, Printer’s driver: to send the instructions including special parameters G-code generator: to generate printing instructions, them, . Architecture of the project . Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 6 / 25 . A four steps application
Presentation of the project Application and printing limitations Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Architecture of the project 7 / 25 Calibration of the printer Project management Main specifications Our technical solutions and results . From the modeler to the printer… Skeinforge ReplicatorG Modeler Code Generator Printer driver (Blender + API) (Slic3r) (PrintRun) Mesh (STL) Instructions (G-code) Binary data (serial line) Printer (UltiMaker)
Presentation of the project Code management with Git. Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Some meetings with the clients. Weekly meetings with the supervisor, Our industrial supervisor from Airbus: Lionel Cremel, . . External help . calendars, documents, wiki, notifications…), Architecture of the project A web-based project management system: Chiliproject (Gantt charts, . . Tools . Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 8 / 25
Presentation of the project Architecture of the project Project management Main specifications Our technical solutions and results Calibration of the printer Application and printing limitations V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Three-dimensional modeling and printing project 9 / 25 . V cycle management strategy
Presentation of the project Architecture of the project Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Airbus milestones to respect: mainly documents to provide. 10 / 25 Calibration of the printer Application and printing limitations Project management Main specifications Our technical solutions and results . Macroscopic planning Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 23/01 ➜ 30/01 ➜ 06/02 ➜ 06/02 13/02 ➜ 20/02 ➜ 27/02 ➜ 27/02 05/03 ➜ 12/03 ➜ Date 29/01 05/02 12/02 12/02 19/02 26/02 04/03 04/03 11/03 16/03 Phase Specif Specification Implement ementation Validation dation Milestone M3 M5 M7 M7 M13 BRD an RD and Document BC SOW ARD ARD
Presentation of the project Application characteristics Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Must be delivered as an archive. Must be usable on both Linux Ubuntu and Windows (if possible), Must be fully open source, . . . Architecture of the project About the documentation About the modeler About the global application Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 11 / 25
Presentation of the project Architecture of the project Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon = Mesh defaults detected and corrected before printing. . . Offline interactions required on the meshes . = Cut an object. Smooth a surface (automatically add faces, etc.), Add, remove, translate a vertex, . . Online interactions required on the meshes . Project management Main specifications Our technical solutions and results Calibration of the printer Application and printing limitations About the global application About the modeler About the documentation . Modeler characteristics . . STL and PLY meshes import and STL meshes export required. 12 / 25 ⇒ low complexity ⇒ high complexity accepted
Presentation of the project . Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon from the initial archive. Installation paper: to enable the user to get an operational application continue the work if needed, Technical documentation: so that the client or another team can It should include the limits of the application, User documentation: to use the application properly just by reading it. . Required documentation Architecture of the project . About the documentation About the modeler About the global application Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 13 / 25
Presentation of the project . correction. Drawbacks : No integrated interaction. . Blender (final choice) . Advantages : Very light application, Preexisting interactions, Powerful Python API, A lot of documentation. Drawbacks : Useless things for printing purposes V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon Three-dimensional modeling and printing project Preexisting functions for mesh Advantages : Architecture of the project Modifications in Blender’s GUI Project management Main specifications Our technical solutions and results Calibration of the printer Application and printing limitations Choice of the 3D processing software Mesh correction integration 14 / 25 . = = . Meshlab . . By the all team ⇒ Conception of a modeler from scratch excluded. ⇒ Choice reduced to two editors: Blender and Meshlab.
Presentation of the project . Three-dimensional modeling and printing project V. Duvert, A. Lubineau, C. Naud, J. Packer, F. Ribon If not, two methods are available to repair it. Possibility to check if the mesh is correct, . . Our correction tools . Manifold : each edge belongs to exactly 2 faces. Watertight : there is no hole in the mesh, . Architecture of the project Characteristics needed for printing . Modifications in Blender’s GUI Mesh correction integration Choice of the 3D processing software Application and printing limitations Calibration of the printer Our technical solutions and results Main specifications Project management 15 / 25 . In charge: Florian Ribon
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