MEEG 437
Digital Manufacturing & Design
3 Cr.
Course objectives:
This course is intended to provide student knowledge and hands on skills of the state-of-the-art digital manufacturing technologies including 3D printing, CNC machining & Reverse engineering tools in alignment with the design principles.
Course Plan
History of Industrial Design (4 Hrs)
Concept of design and its evolution
Design Thinking (4 Hrs)
Five stages of Design thinking, Double diamond principle, Identifying a project and planning its steps
Industrial Revolution (2 Hrs)
IR 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 & 4.0
Additive Manufacturing (14 Hrs)
Types of 3D printing, 4D printing and Design for Additive Manufacturing, UP studio, 3D Printer specific software, FDM, SLA (DLP), SLS, 3D-print parts for the project
Subtractive Manufacturing (14 Hrs)
Principles of 5-Axis, Working and application of router, Machine specific software, Pocket NC 3 axis routers (Router demo at Fab-lab), Visit to different makerspaces available at Kathmandu (Fab- lab, Digi Factory)
3D Scanning (10 Hrs)
Photogrammetry, laser- based-devices, and post processing Mesh mixer Autodesk Recap Shining 3D Einscan HX software Geomagic, Photogrammetry, Laser based 3D scanner 3D-scan any model, post process it to remove unwanted artefacts and make it 3D printer ready
Laser Cutting (6 Hrs)
Principle of laser cutting, Laser capacity, orientation and cutting speed, Machine specific software Laser cutting and plasma cutting demo @ Digi, Factory Laser cut parts for the project
Vacuum Forming (6 Hrs)
Principle of vacuum forming, heat setting and polymer thickness, Vacuum forming demo @ Digi Factory, Vacuum forming of parts for project
REFERENCE TEXTS
1. Fundamentals of Digital Manufacturing Science by Shane (Shengquan) Xie, Dejun Chen, 2012
2. Additive Manufacturing Technologies, Ian Gibson, David Rosen, Brent Strucker, 2015
3. Design for Additive Manufacturing, Martin Leary, 2019
4. A Practical Guide to Design for Additive Manufacturing, Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte, 2019