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Description
- Overview:
- Students learn how 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is revolutionizing the manufacturing process. First, students learn what considerations to make in the engineering design process to print an object with quality and to scale. Students learn the basic principles of how a computer-aided design (CAD) model is converted to a series of data points then turned into a program that operates the 3D printer. The activity takes students through a step-by-step process on how a computer can control a manufacturing process through defined data points. Within this activity, students also learn how to program using basic G-code to create a wireframe 3D shapes that can be read by a 3D printer or computer numerical control (CNC) machine.
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Engineering, Geometry, Measurement and Data
- Level:
- High School
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Matthew Jourden
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- Activities
- Date Added:
- 05/04/2019
- License:
- Educational Use Permitted
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML
Three-dimensional printing, often referred to as 3-D printing, is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. The digital model of the object is created in computer aided design (CAD) software and then translated into a language that machines understand.