Wednesday, 9 July 2014

About our Product and Its History



The Idea of Making a 3D Printer didn't struck us immediately. It all began when we were doing our Final Year Project titled "Methodology of Reduction of Blowholes in Castings". During this time we were working in various foundries to find methods to reduce blowholes in castings, here we observed that Foundries were having a tough time to make patterns for Mould Making  process. Patterns we made from various materials like plastic, wood and Metals. Pattern making process was very tedious and time consuming. It took days and sometimes even weeks to make patterns and without pattern no casting can be made. Also pattern makers would charge heavily  thus foundries suffered huge Financial and Time losses.



It was during this time we thought about finding a process that would make pattern making easy and economical. Thus we browsed net and came across the world of 3D Printing. 3D Printer was the solution of all the problems which were faced by Foundries for pattern making. There were many Companies across the world that provided 3D Printers. Worldwide specially in Developed countries 3D Printers were widely used, People of that countries had lot of Awareness regarding this Technology. On the other hand awareness regarding 3D Printers was Sparse in India. There were only few companies in India which provided 3D Printers, but they were very costly. We carried out feasibility study regarding 3D Printers and Decided to make one.
Alpha prototype JAAV 1


Thus we took challenge of making  a 3D Printer in our Final Sem Project. We wanted to make a 3D Printer which can be afforded by Small Foundries as well as Industries thus we locally sourced parts for our printer and fabricated them ourselves. We did lot of experiments and made our own design of 3D Printer. After working for nearly 3 Months our 3D Printer was ready.

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