Use 3D printing technology to make stuffed animals

November 06, 2023

3D printing is a kind of rapid prototyping technology, it is a digital model file based on the use of powder metal or plastic and other adhesive materials, through the way of layer by layer printing to construct the object technology, now 3D printing technology services are used in more and more places, you know, our plush toys can actually use 3D technology to produce, Except the print head sends out wool instead of melted plastic, which is amazing.
According to reports, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Disney Research Center jointly developed a new technology that can transform digital 3D models into woven fabric technology, this technology is through software programs and computer-programmed knitting machines, to achieve collaboration, so as to customize a variety of 3D printed plush toys, making it possible to 3D print fluffy items. In terms of structure, the machine that can replace multiple people for the task of compiling is a mixture of 3D printer and sewing machine, which can create softer, bendable objects for printing plush doll models.

The production method is to use the precipitation printing method of 3D printer, inject knitting materials such as wool into the printer, a yarn needle with a barb is installed on the printer head, and the yarn is wound back and forth, which also causes the adjacent fiber layers to intertwine with each other, layer by layer, and combined, just like a sewing machine. Then the online 3D printing technology is used to complete the weaving process according to the model code output by the computer.

Compared with the traditional manual production of different shapes of plush toy figures, the reduction degree is higher, more realistic, and the time is shorter, improving the production efficiency of the plush toy factory, and can also find the problems in the knitting process at any time according to the structure of the model to reduce mistakes.

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