Week 4: Print Textiles With PLA Filament

This method was originally developed by Haruki Takahashi and Jeeeun Kim. 2019. 3D Printed Fabric: Techniques for Design and 3D Weaving Programmable Textiles.

I choose the option to play with the parameters in the given example, I found the following:

Parameters for geometry modification include:

Base parameters, pillar parameters, and 'distance from the pillar to the fibers' in the block of Hair G-code parameters.

Other parameters are used for 3D printing setting.

I want to see the flexibility of this structure, so I removed the bottom base, leaving it a bendable structure. I also want to see how the warp can be taken out as textiles, but am also concern about the looseness of this structure without bottom support. So I adjusted the distance from the pillar to the fibers, interval between pillar and some other pillar parameters. The images show the resulting geometry and the parameters I adjusted.

My first print is not idea. So I think I should print different parameters to see which distance works best. I made a table of the tests I want to try with. Finally test 3 gives me the structure that I can pull a fiber out! However, the distance between pillars and fibers seems to close that I have to manually separate them from each other. So I increased that parameter and did test 4. I would call that the idea parameters as fibers are not sticking to each other, and not too loose that they fall apart.