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Development Of A Mobile Fused Deposition Modeling System With Enhanced Manufacturing Flexibility, Jae-Won Choi, Francisco Medina, Chiyen Kim, David Espalin, David Rodriguez, Brent Stucker, Ryan Wicker
Development Of A Mobile Fused Deposition Modeling System With Enhanced Manufacturing Flexibility, Jae-Won Choi, Francisco Medina, Chiyen Kim, David Espalin, David Rodriguez, Brent Stucker, Ryan Wicker
Dr. Jae-Won Choi
Development of a flexible and mobile fused deposition modeling (FDM) system from an existing FDM system to enable deposition of material on virtually any surface without being confined to a build chamber is described. Flexibility of the system was demonstrated by depositing ABS on different surfaces, and simple pull tests were performed to determine bonding strength between the deposited materials. To develop the flexible FDM system, a Stratasys FDM 3000 machine was used and modified by reversing the z stage and attaching the x–y table controlling the FDM head to the bottom of the z stage. In this new configuration, …