Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Design

PROTOTIPAGEM - 2021/2022

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Mestre António Nicolau
Assistant Professor: Mestre António Nicolau

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 4 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Disciplines as prototyping workshop should enable the student of Industrial Design contact with projects from conception to finished product under technical supervision and creative help consolidating building experience of prototypes and final products.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Give students knowledge to adapt the general concept geometries of industrial products to mass production technologies, taking into account the specificity of production technologies. By using the design rules and materializing objects with Aditive Manufacturing Technologies students automatically identify design errors and make the appropriate corrections to prevent costly losses in the manufacturing of the final product

Skills to be acquired

Knoledge from the most ancient to the most emerging prototype production techniques, namely Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling and rapid Manufacturing or recent Aditive manufacturing.
Endogeneisation and practice of experimental design rules learned in other disciplines of materials and production technologies.
Materialization of prototypes with morphological characteristics similar to those of mass production products.

Teaching Procedures

Theoretical exposition lessons and worshop experiments at INEGI for prototype production applying the referred techniques.
Study visits at CDRSP Center for Rapid and sustained product Development in Marinha Grande and CENCAL Glass Technological Center

Programme

The areas that will be subject of study will be:

- Traditional prototyping technologies
- Rapid prototyping and rapid tooling
- Production of plastic and metal pre-series
- Practical work of rapid prototyping for objects developed in the discipline and in other disciplines.
- Exploration of the hardware and software tools with real parts to be developed by the student and prototypes materialization and finishing. The rapid prototyping equipments at INEGI play an important role
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I - Theoretical and practical (2 Hours / week)
1 - Tools to support product development. Conventional methods for prototypes realization and rapid prototyping technologies. Rapid tooling. Component design.

1.1 - Powerful Rapid Prototyping processes.
-Stereolithography, SLA
-Selective laser sintering, SLS
-Fused deposition modeling; FDM
-Laminated Object manufacturing LOM

1.2 - Less current Rapid Prototyping Technologies

Technologies of conceptual modeling-based on three dimensional printing (concept modeling)
Z- Corp Case
Object-Process Quadra
Stratasys process

1.3. - Rapid Tooling Processes
- Vacuum casting technology for plastic and metal conversion
-Tools for plastic injection
-Tools for other molding processes

II - Workshop 2h/week

Visit the Inegi for watching casting technologies and plastic forming.
Introduction to Rapid Prototyping technologies
The process LOM Rapid Prototyping and SLA
Preparation of silicone molds for Polyurethane vacuum casting
Finishing prototypes manufactured by SLA
Finishes with varnish, paint and textures of the models obtained in SLA and Wax.
Work bibliographic research about most recent and emerging processes
SLA practical for obtaining prototypes
Delivery of reports of students and presentation of the work
Discussion of results and final evaluation

Evaluation Type

60% of the assessment will be done trough1 report of synthesis including study visist, 1 report of worshop and oral classification.

Teaching Resources

Practical work to be carried out at the University.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Rapid prototyping, Aditive manufacturing, models prototypes, Design

Main Bibliography