Latest News | TrussFab: Fabricating Sturdy Large-Scale Structures on Desktop 3D Printers

A team of 13 people at "Human Computer Interaction lab" This Team have designed a "TrussFab" a plugin for Sketchup that will soon become opensource. Here are Authors who made it successful " Robert Kovacs, Anna Seufert, Ludwig Wall, Hsiang-Ting Chen, Florian Meinel, Willi Müller, Si-jing You, Maximilian Brehm, Jonathan Striebel, Yannis Kommana, Alexander Popiak, Thomas Bläsius, and Patrick Baudisch"
TrussFab is an integrated end-to-end system that allows users to fabricate large structures that are sturdy enough to carry human weight. TrussFab have used plastic bottles combined with 3D print, wherein bottles are considered as “beam” to form a structure based on closed triangles known as Trusses ,this trusses helps to handle the forces resulting from scale and load. TrussFab contains the required engineering knowledge that makes easy for non-engineers to design such structures and allows users to validate their designs using integrated structural analysis.

Here is a short video all about how it works ?

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