Credits:
Project initiator:
Dr. Wilfried Stoll, managing partner
Festo Holding GmbH
Project management:
Dr. Heinrich Frontzek, Dr. Elias Knubben
Festo AG & Co. KG
Stephan Henrich
Stephan Henrich – Robotikdesign und Architektur, Stuttgart
Project team:
Stephan Droste
Tekt.io GmbH, Stuttgart
Ruben Spycher
Zurich, Switzerland
Daniel Jentsch, Karlheinz Willius
Festo AG & Co. KG
Scientific support:
Dr. Nina Gaißert
Festo AG & Co. KG
(c) 2016 Festo AG & Co. KG
The 3D Cocooner buids filigree lattice-structures directly in space just like a caterpillar. It´s nozzle laminates the endless fiber of a e-glass-roving with a liquid uv-light-curing resin to delicate yet highly resistent lightweight-structures.
Unlike most common 3d-printing systems the 3d Cocooner does not work in a 2 1/2 d layer-by-layer construction-logic, but builds it´s 2mm thin fiber-rods supportless in 3d-space.
The spinning-nozzle that is mounted on a vertically set up Festo tripod executes geometry-data, parametrically generated in Cinema 4d.
Technical data
• Design software: Cinema 4D
• Multi-axis kinematics: Festo Tripod EXPT-45
• Construction space: approx. 450 × 300 × 600 mm
• Construction speed: 10 mm/s
• UV light: fibre-coupled LED; 365 nm; 9.3 mW
• Material: glass-fibre roving with 2400 tex for producing
glass-fibre rods with 2 mm diameter and 60% fibre–volume ratio
• Weight of glass-fibre rod: 5–7 g/m
• UV plastic: 1-Vinylhexahydro-2H-azepin-2-on, acrylate mixture
