1. 3D Print Lab Elizabeth J. Pyatt
IT Accessibility Consultant, Instructor of Linguistics
Aaron Knochel
Assistant Professor of Art Education
Embedded Researcher, Art & Design Research Incubator

2. Organization Define 3D printing Use cases How to build the model
Many, many options
Printing the model
Makerbot here, but other options available

3. 3D printing at Penn State
Facilities
DigiFab
Learning Factory
MAKE 3D
Maker Commons

4. 3D printing

5. Other options Materials Quality
Plastic, metal, ceramics, edible proteins?
Quality

6. 3D printing as an accommodation
Examples
Human vs. primate skull (anthro)
Interpret weather map
3D Math Curves
Neanderthal skull by Wikipedia user Luna4. Released into public domain

7. How might digital fabrication technologies such as 3D printing assist in tactile learning?

8. Simplifying the image

9. The image as texture

10. Unseen art: Mona Lisa
Unseen Art

11. Shapereader Project
“Shapereader is a repertoire of forms and patterns that constitute an attempt to translate words and meanings into tactile formations. It was designed from scratch with the goal to transpose works of graphic literature to a blind and visually impaired readership...”

12. How do you make a 3D print?

13. Wen Hsia Hsiao
Doctoral student in Art Education
Making Museums More Accessible: A case study from the Palmer Museum of Art

14. How to make 3D printing? Step 1 Step 2 Final Autodesk 123D Meshmixer
Use “Makerbot” 3 D printing machine. Print the 3D printing

15. Step 1 Autodesk 123D

16. Step 1 continued

17. Makerbot

18. Step 2 - Meshmixer

19. Seymour Lipton’s Lynched (1993)
Slide shows original statue of model Lynched of bound captive. The captive is naked and forced into a fetal position. A smaller 3D print formed bby the stope above is shown.

20. Assistive Objects in Online Education: A case study from Linguistics
Alyssa Pittenger
Masters student in Art Education
Assistive Objects in Online Education: A case study from Linguistics

21. Celtic Social History Powerpoint
Slide shows illuminated manuscript page with complex ”Celtic” design

22. Working through the procces

23. Working through the process (2)
Image of designwas converted to SVG, but image was not suitable for 3D printing.
A simplified image with most of the background removed is converted to SVG and made into a 3D print

24. Working through the process (3)

25. 3D designs in Tinkercad
Software interface shows SVG image and tools to build models including spheres, cubes and rrulers.

26. 3D math curves
Export from 3D curve like Mathematica or others

27. Download something Thingiverse Other repositories
Other repositories

28. Tinkercad Free, on the cloud Play around Export as STL
Upgrades to other Autodesk products available
Play around
Export as STL

29. Options Join Holes Slicing Import SVG
Merge simple shapes to create more complex items
Holes
Create holes in different shapes
Slicing
Remove parts of shapes
Import SVG
2D vector file
Use “extrusion” to add dimension

30. Prepare for print Makerbot prep

31. Questions? Aaron Knochel, Assistant Professor of Art Education
Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Instructional Designer, Instructor of Linguistics