With the new 3D printer, I realized that not everything I designed could be manufactured at all. It seems obvious that the design must be not only beautiful but also technologically feasible. An example of a non-technological design is on the left. With a regular FDM printer, I knew the limitations and thought that for stereolithography, I just needed to flip the model upside down, and the errors would only be in the fact that many ideas simply wouldn’t print. Well, it turned out everything works differently there. One error just stops the printing process. That is, you only find out that it has been idly working because of an error about an hour and a half after the start of printing.
I have always had (and still have) the idea to learn how to manufacture parametric models of complex shapes, what is called “generative design” and “bio design”. This is a design where programming and art intersect. Here are some good examples https://3dheals.com/generative-design-in-healthcare-3d-printing-and-3d-bioprinting. So, with these, the complexity needs to come at the end, not the start, because there are too many situations where something goes wrong and ruins the entire model, and something inevitably does go wrong.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 