21,000 square feet of amazingness where NYC designers can take their ideas from prototype, to production, to market in a community that values ethical production, reducing our environmental impacts and the creation of local jobs.

Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator

Digital Fabrication

Additive/ Subtractive CNC Milling, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, CNC Knitting

3D Printing History

1986 - First 3D Printer for sale in by 3D Systems

2008 - Rep Rap Project “humanity's first general purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.”

3D Printing Hardware

Hobbyist/ Prosumer $500-$3,500 Professional - $10,000 - $200,000 Industrial - $250,000 - $2,000,000+

3D Printing Methods

-FDM fused deposition modeling

-DMLS direct metal laser sintering

-3DP 3d printing

-SLA stereolithography

-SLS selective laser sintering

Design for 3D Printing

Limitations

-Material Properties

-Speed

-Size

-Cost

3D Printing as a conventional manufacturing primer

3D Printing Examples

Digital Design Tools

Architecture: Rhino/ Grasshopper

Product Design: Solidworks/ Rhino

Gaming Design/ Animation: Zbrush/ Maya

Jewelry Design: Rhino/ Zbrush

Digital Media: Processing

Computer Science: Python/ JavaScript

3D Files

NURBS (points, curves, ctrl pts, surfaces) [vector] Mesh (faces, vertices, edges) [raster]

3D Printing Services

Make Mode Shapeways Red Eye Academic Fab Lab

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