Functional Design for 3D Printing: Designing printed things for everyday use - Softcover

Smyth, Clifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1511572027 ISBN 13: 9781511572026

Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, 2015

Synopsis

This improved Second Edition features twice the illustrations, a more readable format, and tons of additional information. 3D Printing is changing the way we think about design, distribution, and manufacturing. By bringing the factory to the desktop, this technology opens the door to a multitude of new opportunities, and challenges paradigms from the drawing board to the boardroom. Designing usable products for 3D printing poses some unique challenges, and blends the roles of designer and engineer. In Functional Design for 3D Printing Second Edition, the author explains and instructs how to leverage the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of the 3D printing process. From material selection to design details that will tolerate the design-to-printing process, this book gives the reader the tools to transform their designs into durable, useful products that print reliably on a variety of machines. 

 Functional Design for 3D Printing will help you to:

- Minimize printing time, material use, and weight 

- Minimize the chance of print failure, on a variety of machines and software 

- Make interlocking / snap fit joints - Maximize strength for maximum utility 

- Make objects that flex without breaking 

- Incorporate multiple materials into your design for multi-extruder machines 

- Reduce stress concentrations for maximum durability 

- Solve bed adhesion issues in your design 

- Use the correct structural design paradigm, including mixed paradigms for maximum utility 

- Decide how and when to use support; when it is worth it to design support features into your model - Design objects to print in multiple materials or colors 

- Turn your design ideas into practical designs that print efficiently and assemble into a durable, functional object.

Also included are many more practical details on the design process, including appendices on printing very thin, flexible structures, printer calibrations, structural strength, and more.

If you are an experienced designer, Functional Design for 3D Printing will show you design practices that will help you to quickly create functional, printable objects well beyond what is possible with simple model-to-printing work-flows.

If you are a novice designer, Functional Design for 3D Printing will be a useful supplement and reference, giving you the technical framework of functional design, helping you to progress from neophyte to high proficiency with a minimum of trial and error. 

Functional Design for 3D Printing covers the intersection of design, printing, and utility, enabling the reader to accelerate their path to creating high utility objects within 3D design and printing workflows. 

This volume will help you to incorporate design practices that open up the possibilities for durable, functional, printable objects that print quickly and reliably- delivering the full potential of the "desktop factory". 180 pages, 78 illustrations

About this title

About the Author

An early adopter of additive manufacturing and an innovator in the 3D printing space, Clifford Smyth was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1968. He attended local schools and the University of Alaska - Fairbanks. Starting out with an early interest in technology, his first exposure to computing was using his mother's account on the University of Alaska mainframe. Learning some rudimentary Fortran, he "appropriated" system time from other users by gaining unauthorized access to the system database in order to satisfy his hunger for computing resources. Reflecting on this, he has mentioned that "at the time, it might not have been a felony", and that anyway, he was “9 at the time, and didn't get caught.” He refined his coding skills on an Ohio Scientific C28P he purchased with the help of his older brother in 1979. Writing mostly video games and simple bytecode interpreters, he went on to write and market a simple database application for the Timex-Sinclair 1000 home microcomputer under his in-house software publishing company "SmythSoft" in 1982. This was not a commercial success. Mr. Smyth currently divides his time between homes in Alaska and the Caribbean, writing books about subjects that intrigue him and pretending to farm coffee and avocados on a modest plantation on the island of Hispaniola. An admirer of Neal Stephenson, Dewey Lambdin, George MacDonald Fraser, William Gibson, and Tom Robbins, to name a few, he hopes one day to write books that are not as he puts it, “very, very badly written”. He is pursuing new collaborative projects in additive manufacturing, pervasive computing, and many other technology related fields, and publishes 3d printable flying gliders on thingiverse.com under the pseudonym exosequitur.

Review

"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...".." As others here have suggested, buy the print version so you can highlight it and keep it next to your printer."

- Five-star reviewer for the second edition

"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."

- Five-star reviewer for 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."

- Five-star reviewer for the second edition

Edition details

• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1511572027
• ISBN 13: 9781511572026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 179
• Editor: Smyth Adrienne