LESSON 8.5 · 1:51 · CHAPTER 8 · MACHINES, PATHS AND MACHINING
Print three to print one
If a layer comes round too soon, print several parts in rotation instead of waiting.
Predict · at 0:29 in the video
A cylinder layer takes 16 seconds, and the minimum layer time is 60. Dwell, or print several in rotation: how many, and how busy is the robot each way?
Four cylinders, and the robot never stops. Dwelling, it prints 16 seconds out of every 60. 27 percent.
Further reading
This course is our own. These books go deeper.
- The economics of Big Area Additive Manufacturing, Post et al., Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2016
- Additively manufactured carbon fibre-reinforced composites: state of the art and perspective, van de Werken et al., Composites Part A, 2020
About the numbers
Simulations in this lesson are our own. Where a number rests on an assumption or a single source, the video marks it with an asterisk and says where it comes from.
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