Cuplomacy Blog » Peter Atwood http://cuplomacy.com/blog What Can a Cup Do For Congress? Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:39:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Slip Casting in Progress http://cuplomacy.com/blog/slip-casting-in-progress/ http://cuplomacy.com/blog/slip-casting-in-progress/#comments Fri, 08 May 2015 20:29:50 +0000 http://cuplomacy.com/blog/?p=114

Slip Casting is underway. A big Thanks goes out to Kimberlee Joy Roth for helping us out with our slip issues and sharing her recipe. Now that those issues have been resolved, casting is smoothly on its way.

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Pouring slip into the mold.

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Slip setting up in the mold before pouring the slip out.

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The slip has set

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The molds are ready to open. Next step adding handles.

Cups drying getting ready for our first bisque.

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Gotta love math! It works. The white cup is the original 3D print to test scale and form. The black cup is the scaled up print to allow for clay shrinkage. The off white one is the slip cast cup fired to cone 10. It shrank and matches our original white 3D print!

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You really got to love math when they multiple this fast!

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Today we started printing the final master cups for molding. We are working with  Dr. Bashir khoda, Assistant Professor in the Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Dept. and his team of PhD students. They have a couple different 3D printing machines but we decided to use their Dimension because we felt it would give us the best result for the master prints.

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Before printing all the cups and handles we did a single test print which can be seen below. We think it will take some sanding and refinement during the molding process but it should give us a good result.

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We also needed to work through some file translation problems but with the combined effort of Dr. Bashir, his team, and myself we were able to make sure our digital files were print ready. Now to let the 3D printer do its work.

 

– Peter Atwood

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3D printing prototypes

The prototyping process has been very interesting and revealing as we are able to quickly test the actual look and feel of the cups we are designing. We soon realized that although being able to visualize the cups in digital three dimensional space our sense of scale in this space was thrown off. Our original prototypes needed to be scaled up considerably. We went through about three iterations before we were satisfied with their scale and proportions.

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We are now ready to begin preparing the digital files to be printed not as full scale prototypes but rather as masters for the molding process.

 

– Peter Atwood

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