A serious-size shapewave® inside part was made for the Toyota Research Institute of North America, as part of the Toyota Mothership project to build aerial platforms with large kites. This 5m span wing has a design pressure of 0.3 bar and weighs 3.2 kg, using standard available material. The next move will be to figure out if lighter materials can be applied.
The shapewave 3D printing tool chain is developed from within enserinkdesign.com and has almost completely taken our design studio over.
In a nutshell: shapewave's proprietary WAM software analyzes and populates a 3D model with an internal webbing structure according to a handful of user settings. It then generates a build recipe file that loads in the wavemaker robot, that automatically applies thousands of tapes with the right length and position between two fabric skins. The parts are then assembled and sealed to create a nicely shaped part, that closely matches the original 3D model.
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