Ceramic Print

The limitations for this print were pretty simple, after all the printer is printing with clay. This meant that the printer could only print nonstop, which meant the print had to be able to print without stopping. Plus clay doesn't dry immediately, so the material is soft and can't support steep angle or large drops because it will collapse. These limitations actually confined our model quite a bit as our original 3D model was heavily based on being able to print separate columns. This meant we would have to remake a completely new design. Given the limitations and the materials we all decided on a glass/mug. Something simple that's easily printable that also makes sense to be made out of clay.

We threw up a quick couple designs in Rhino, and our whole group decided on one pretty quickly. It was simple yet elegant and made sense for the print. With everything set all we had to do was scale it and repair it for Bryan to slice.


Now came the fun part. The printing process is much faster as the tip and amount of material used by the printer is much larger than anything in the thing tank. That meant that our print only took 20 minutes compared to the ridiculous amount of hours it took for the chalice. There was only one issue in the entire print, which was the air bubbles. There was small air bubbles that resulted in a little deformation on the side, but besides that everything was fine.


Overall the print went well and I'm excited to see what got looks like once completely fired.

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