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Thermoplastics 3d Printing Using Fused Deposition Modeling On Fabrics, Maxwell M. Blais
Thermoplastics 3d Printing Using Fused Deposition Modeling On Fabrics, Maxwell M. Blais
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The creation of objects with integrated flexibility is desired and this can be achieved by additive manufacturing on fabric. We propose to use a textile fabric as a flexible joint and create to create an entire object with smaller parts called segments. Such a novel technique will bring integrated flexibility and folded assemblies using extrusion based additive manufacturing machines. The proposed process allows segments to be created flat one at a time on a continuous fabric, which will be suitable for flat to folded assemblies and eliminate size limitations of the 3D printer. Techniques considering object segmentation were used to …