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A celebrated designer committed to the "rapid manufacturing" to create their designs in the field of lighting

The "rapid manufacturing" find new applications for interior design

01/11/2005

The innovative design for household lighting systems have entered has become part of the portfolio of products that are manufactured in the central of Materialise in Leuven (Belgium) using machines of laser sintering. Systems are supplied by the German company EOS systems Electro optical, represented in Spain by Victor Paluzie Avila, since company RMS Rapid Manufacturing Systems. Originally, one of the main methods for rapid prototyping, the sintered by laser, has matured to a technology for optimized production of small series - including the final product and spare parts. The technology creates parts directly from CAD data, without the need to use molds.

Based on CAD models, lighting systems can be modified to meet the needs of a particular client. The identification was made possible by a simple mutation of the electronic data on the screen. A single model is then downloaded to machines of sintering Eosint P 380 or P 7000 of Materialise laser. The above model is capable of producing parts of up 700 x 380 x 580 mm, on a surface with more than a meter of diagonal. The lighting systems have been created by British designer Lionel Theodore Dean, owner of the company FutureFactories.

According to Dean, "this is the first step towards a comprehensive adaptation of products which shall be addressed to various individual needs." "It is revolutionizing the direction taken by the designers and interior decorators to create their collections, creating limited editions to satisfy the wishes of its customers."

Currently, he is expanding the use of the sintered by laser of plastic furniture projects and has commented that the level of complexity that is capable of reaching in all his designs cannot become a physical reality using conventional manufacturing techniques such as machining or mould.

There are different techniques available manufacturing and rapid prototyping. Dean has identified the sintered by laser as the best method to manufacture their products. A few years ago he began to use a system of relatively crude role of 3D and was changed to the Themorjet printer to produce models for complex metal pieces. With lighting, however, the translucency of the material is superior and the sintered plastic laser has proven to be ideal.

Dean continues: "Materialise also boasts stereolithography machines, but my lamps have proven to be more functional when they are produced from processes of sintering by laser, which has greater flexibility at the same time that the support structures are not needed." I can get a wall thickness of half millimeter which is tough enough for functional use. "Therefore I do not have to rely on sections that commit the transfer of light in my products, and assemblies through clicks are sufficiently strong to withstand together sections without breaking".

There are different techniques available manufacturing and rapid prototyping

EOS in the United Kingdom was a great help in the search for the best material to use, which was identified as the polyamide (nylon) 50-micron. "It has an extraordinary advantage: its high resistance to heat and mechanical stress".

The lighting products that are marketed in Leuven are the models "creepers" and "RGB" which can be viewed at www.futurefactories.com. The latest design, 'tuber9' will follow them. Meanwhile, it has received an important recognition of his work, and it has been accepted as permanent Exhibitor in the design of the famous Museum of modern art collection of New York, MoMA.

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