PneuFab: designing low-cost 3D-printed inflatable structures for blow molding artifacts

Guanyun Wang; Kuangqi Zhu; Lingchuan Zhou; Mengyan Guo; Haotian Chen; Zihan Yan; Deying Pan; Yue Yang; Jiaji Li; Jiang Wu; Ye Tao; Lingyun Sun

doi:10.1145/3544548.3580923

PneuFab: designing low-cost 3D-printed inflatable structures for blow molding artifacts

Guanyun Wang, Kuangqi Zhu, Lingchuan Zhou, Mengyan Guo, Haotian Chen, Zihan Yan, Deying Pan, Yue Yang, Jiaji Li, Jiang Wu, Ye Tao, Lingyun Sun

Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

Access to computer-aided fabrication tools, such as 3D printing, empowers various craft techniques to democratize the creation of artifacts. To afford new blow molding techniques in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, we make efforts to simplify this challenging handy fabrication and enrich the design space of blow molding by taking advantage of the thermoformability and heat deformability of 3D printed thermoplastics. We propose a novel and democratized blow molding technique, PneuFab, enabled by FDM 3D-printed custom structures and temporal triggering methods. Then we implement and evaluate a design tool that allows users to play with parameters and preview the resulting forms until achieving their desired shapes. Showcasing design spaces including artifacts with complex geometries and tunable stiffness, we hope to expand access and dive into what more the digital blow molding fabrication can be.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580923 https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580923
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

Keywords

3D Printing
Blow Molding
Hybrid Fabrication
Shape Changing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Wang, G., Zhu, K., Zhou, L., Guo, M., Chen, H., Yan, Z., Pan, D., Yang, Y., Li, J., Wu, J., Tao, Y., & Sun, L. (2023). PneuFab: designing low-cost 3D-printed inflatable structures for blow molding artifacts. In CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 693 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580923, https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580923

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Wang G, Zhu K, Zhou L, Guo M, Chen H, Yan Z et al. PneuFab: designing low-cost 3D-printed inflatable structures for blow molding artifacts. In CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 2023. 693. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3544548.3580923, 10.1145/3544548.3580923

PneuFab: designing low-cost 3D-printed inflatable structures for blow molding artifacts

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