The goal of this project was to create a hardware and software platform for performing 5-axis additive manufacturing. The 5-axis 3D printer translated in the x-, y-, and z-axes, and rotated in the a- and b-axes. Although the hardware printed using fused deposition modeling (FDM), the platform was adaptable to a variety of deposition systems such as cold spray. The software converted a 3D model into 5-axis instructions for the printer, with no further user input. This software made 5-axis 3D printing, previously a niche research area, accessible to anyone with a 3D object file.

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Creator

• Whelan, Hugh O.
• Coeytaux, Ethan A.
• Crook, Cameron M.
• Pauwels, Alexandre J.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042717-111547

Advisor

• Heineman, George T.
• Putnam, Craig B.
• Sarkozy, Gabor N
• Apelian, Diran

Year

• 2017

Date created

• 2017-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright