<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Design Style Changed Due To 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/6457/design-style-changed-due-to-3d-printing/ Mon, 19 May 2014 19:15:35 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Design Style Changed Due To 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/56589/#p56589 Yeah, you pick up bad habits this way. 

If you have to make models that are designed for injection molding, you should continue designing them that way, because there are many things you can get away with in 3D printing that are no-no's for injection molding, like undercuts, drafts (lack thereof), holes in horizontal walls, lack of reinforcing ribs, etc.

Design your model for injection molding, then print it as is, or if you must, bring it into something like Netfabb and segment it so you can make it printable.  Don't design a model that prints on an FDM, only to find its impossible to make a mold for it, or worse yet, the mold will require many interlockable pieces, which adds 10th of thousands of dollars to the cost.

Design with the original intent in mind.

]]> Mon, 19 May 2014 19:15:35 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/56589/#p56589 <![CDATA[Design Style Changed Due To 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/56582/#p56582 Now that I’ve been designing parts for 3D printing for a while, I’m beginning to notice that my design style has changed to where I am leaning more on the side of designing for what will be printable vs. what may be moldable; don’t get me wrong, moldability is still a must for what I do, so my designs must contain that element, but specific features and thicknesses within a model for me are now pretty much defined by what I can print successfully.

It's probably not even worth a Topic, but I really had not done it this way in the past…

Any Thoughts / Pros / Cons on the subject?

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