The advent of multi-material freeform fabrication technologies has exponentially increased the mechanical design space available to engineers. The feature-based paradigm of traditional CAD software is insufficient to ...

Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) of food has the potential to drastically impact both culinary professionals and laypeople; the technology will fundamentally change the ways we produce and experience food. Several imposing ...

The de-facto standard STL file format has served the rapid prototyping community for over two decades, but falls short with the advent of new technological developments such as the ability to handle multiple and ...

The open-architecture, open-source Fab@Home platform has proven to be an important system within the SFF community. In order to facilitate wider spread of the Fab@Home platform and SFF throughout the world, we aimed to ...

This research demonstrates a working freeform fabricator with a six degree of freedom printhead capable of additive fabrication onto existing structures. A parallel actuation mechanism was developed with stationary motors. ...

Recycling is often a costly and inefficient process, particularly for objects composed of multiple integrated materials. Here, we demonstrate a freeform fabrication system that prints with fully reusable physical voxels ...

We propose the use of modular, printed bricks to enable the integration of building systems and various processing techniques through the use of scalable printer platforms. This is enabled by a novel material platform ...

Solid Freeform Fabrication is a family of manufacturing processes that create three-dimensional objects by depositing material, layer-by-layer. Traditionally, this technology has been used to fabricate passive parts, but ...

Technologies for multi-material 3D-printing of anatomical shapes are useful both for fabrication of heterogeneous cell-seeded implants as well as for fabrication of synthetic models for surgical planning and training. ...