27/06/2022
Dr. Nathaniel Kaill from Loughborough University recently completed the second part of his secondment to the project’s industrial partner Fibrex in Romania. During his secondment he was able to offer training to partner’s staff on the 5-Axis printer hosted by the technical university of Cluj-Napoca. This has been an ongoing aspect of the project to ensure that the expert researchers are trained and capable of developing the deliverables for the project.
As part of his secondment, he created a g-code suitable for use on the 5-Axis printer that can create a suitable test part and the print substrate for it. This Grasshopper file has been uploaded to the DiCoMI shared repository, with recommendations for the control software or G-code generation should be the 5axismonkey or a variation of it to match the changed kinematics of using a rotating table. The reasoning behind this is that it easily allows the bespoke design capability that is beneficial for multi-axis material extrusion. This amount of control over the toolpath allows for design methodology to control the orientation and direction of the deposited material – one of the principal aims of the DiCoMI project. The parametric design software in Grasshopper can be used to create the 3D curve, with the option to import suitable geometries from other CAD software dependant on the users' experience. With this work contributing to Work Package 4.
We are thankful to the staff of Fibrex for hosting this visit and to Prof. Nic Balc and the rest of the staff at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca for access to the 5-Axis printer and their support.
Dr. Nathaniel Kaill from Loughborough University recently completed the second part of his secondment to the project’s industrial partner Fibrex in Romania. During his secondment he was able to offer training to partner’s staff on the 5-Axis printer hosted by the technical university of Cluj-Napoca. This has been an ongoing aspect of the project to ensure that the expert researchers are trained and capable of developing the deliverables for the project.
As part of his secondment, he created a g-code suitable for use on the 5-Axis printer that can create a suitable test part and the print substrate for it. This Grasshopper file has been uploaded to the DiCoMI shared repository, with recommendations for the control software or G-code generation should be the 5axismonkey or a variation of it to match the changed kinematics of using a rotating table. The reasoning behind this is that it easily allows the bespoke design capability that is beneficial for multi-axis material extrusion. This amount of control over the toolpath allows for design methodology to control the orientation and direction of the deposited material – one of the principal aims of the DiCoMI project. The parametric design software in Grasshopper can be used to create the 3D curve, with the option to import suitable geometries from other CAD software dependant on the users' experience. With this work contributing to Work Package 4.
We are thankful to the staff of Fibrex for hosting this visit and to Prof. Nic Balc and the rest of the staff at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca for access to the 5-Axis printer and their support.
