Postgraduate short talk for Loughborough University Research Conference 2013 "RESEARCH THAT MATTERS" Summary: This research on creating an easy design system is a development from the consumers’ potential to actively designing their own desired products and thereby empowering them to manufacture the products independently using an Additive Manufacturing (AM) machine / 3D printer. Recent developments in the field of AM / 3D printing (cheaper machines and new materials) have led to a renewed interest from the general public in manufacturing customised products. Although these technologies can enhance the understanding of non-technology compliant consumers and bring the manufacturing process closer to them, they need to be able to create 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) models as an input, which in normal circumstances would require a lengthy period of specialist training. Consequently, to make AM / 3D printing more reliable and easier to operate by consumers, design tools need to be developed to be as simple as possible to be operated, in the same manner as entry-level AM /3D printing technologies. This study suggests Computer Aided Consumer Design (CaCODE) systems as user friendly design tools which can simplify the CAD stages needed to produce the 3D model data required for AM / 3D printing processes.

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Can consumers design and
manufacture products by themselves?
Yudhi Ariadi
Design Practice Research Group
Loughborough Design School
Supervisors
Dr Mark Evans and Dr Ian Campbell
7th March 2013

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 Auto brightness
 Red eyes
removal
 Acne removal
 Beautiful
enhancement
Amazing
Photo
Editor
App
The Trends
Customers are getting closer to producing a product…
Sorry mate, due to high demand Your
photos will be ready in the next 3 days
3 days later…
This is so dull..
This one is red
eyes…
Ohh.. my eyes
closed…
OMG MY ACNES…!
10 years ago…
Nowadays….
This photo is more
beautiful than a real
one….!

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The Trends
Customers are getting closer to producing a product…
I need a return ticket
for my holiday…
Ugh.. Can you find.. Err
any cheaper…
£345 return from 7th to 21st
March..
£234 return from 12th to
19th March..
Err.. It’s only 7 days..
Can you change the
route.. Maybe cheaper.. £195 return from 9th to
23rd March.. Transit two
airports..
Do you want stopover?
Travel with us, you
won’t feel lonely …
10 years ago…
Nowadays….

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The current technologies
In manufacturing products
www.plasticimpex.com
We simplify a complicated
manufacturing system to
become

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Hooray
The (very near) future
http://gabrielfam.deviantart.com/art/House-Cartoon-57671182
Mum…
I bought an Additive
Manufacturing machine….! WHAT….! Manufacturing
system..???
It must be very expensive..!
No….! It’s less than your
boxing day handbag price…
Okay… So what can we do
with it…?
We can print toys…
Beautiful shoes..
A Handbag..
Currently:
- 24 machines < £500,
(4 assembled, 20 DIY kit)
- 4 machines < £300,
(1 assembled, 3 DIY kit)

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The problem
future
factory
Cubify
Complexity of
Computer-aided
Design (CAD)
shapeways
28 videos online training
Getting started with SketchUp - Part 1 (9:58)
Getting started with SketchUp - Part 2 (8:12)
Getting started with SketchUp - Part 3 (14:48)
Getting started with SketchUp - Part 4 (12:11)
SketchUp Toolbar Series (24 videos)
Selections (4:28)
Components (4:26)
Paint Bucket (4:18)
Eraser (1:55)
Rectangle (1:34)
Lines (2:37)
Circle/Polygon (3:10)
Arc (4:12)
Freehand (1:03)
Move (2:23)
Push Pull (3:33)
Rotate (4:48)
Follow-Me (4:21)
Scale (3:42)
Offset (3:07)
Tape Measure (3:06)
Dimensioning (4:04)
Protractor (2:42)
Text & 3D Text (5:05)
Axes (2:20)
Navigation (3:03)
Position Camera/ Look Around (2:38)
Walk (2:14)
Sections (2:22)
SolidWorks Essentials 4 days
Advanced Part Modeling 2.5 days
Surface Modeling 2 days
8.5 days

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The suggestion
CaCODE: Computer-aided Consumer Design
Sketching
3D modelling
CaCODE: PenCAD
Consumers
Consumers’ creation
www.dreamstime.com
‘Unfinished’ design
Basic design / shape
(Sinclair, 2012)
www.123rf.com
Designers - Engineers

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The suggestion
CaCODE: Computer-aided Consumer Design (Development)
CaCODE: TableWareCAD CaCODE: ShoesCAD

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Thank you very much
Y.Ariadi@lboro.ac.uk