13D printing design rendering in SCAD’s DigiLab

Designing theFuture
Design Challenge

SCAD

It’s no secret that trend-setting and innovation
often begin in higher education and top-ranked
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), inGeorgia, is no exception. The college supports
more than 40 majors, ranging from Animation toFurniture Design, and prides itself on providing
cutting-edge curriculum, along with the tools
necessary to fulfill students’ creative vision.
These tools include 19 Stratasys 3D printers.
“Our history with 3D printing is important to us.
We believe very strongly in the benefits of thetechnology,” said Victor Emoli, Dean, SCAD.

The Stratasys Continuous
BuildTM 3D Demonstrator issuch a valuable tool for us.
We now have the ability toprint overnight and show up
in the morning to find multiple
finished pieces, not just one.”
Justin Cox
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But being ahead of the curve can be challenging.
The ability to 3D print a design prototype changed
everything for the design school when they were first
introduced to 3D printing some years ago. “Whether
it’s the sequential arts (cartooning) or furniture design,
The high output capabilities of the Stratasys 3D Demonstrator
being able to print a tangible example of an idea
enable thousands of students to bring their projects to life.
is very enabling,” said Justin Cox, RP operations
manager, SCAD DigiLab. “This was the beginning of
huge development and advancement in art and design all over campus. Students began actually using
3D printing to execute their dreams,” said Emoli.
However, this advancement had some drawbacks as well. While the school saw a dramatic increase inthe quality and complexity of the students’ design work with access to 3D printers, they also saw anincrease in demand for the 3D tools. Now, nearly every major at SCAD employs 3D printing to someextent. But with this comes a new challenge, how to provide sufficient, continuous 3D printing capability
to the more than 12,000 SCAD students.
Continuous 3D Printing Innovation
The solution for the school is the Stratasys Continuous BuildTM 3D Demonstrator, Cloud-Based
Manufacturing System, a continuous, automated-workflow printer, capable of managing multipleworkflow requests. This solution’s ability to tackle nearly unlimited print jobs, in parallel, with nodowntime, and no operator intervention is game changing for high-volume labs, like SCAD. The beautyof the Demonstrator, according to Cox, is the school’s ability to load CAD files from virtually anywhere.
“We now have the ability to print overnight and show up in the morning to find finished pieces. This
allows us to provide unlimited opportunities for all our students, no matter where they are located,”said Cox.
Prior to the Demonstrator, project iteration was not possible due to student backlog. “Now, with thisnew technology, I’m able to think about more forms or new connectors and I’m able to run multiple
iterations at a time to test them. If I like them, I can go in and run 50 parts and I get them in the next
day or two,” said Jocelyn DeSisto, SCAD student.

SCAD

Thanks to its capability for rapid, continuous output, The Stratasys Continuous BuildTM 3D
Demonstrator has been curriculum-changing for the school. Previously, SCAD’s already-large array of3D printers struggled to keep pace with the multitude of student projects in the printing queue. “Withthis new technology,” said Emoli, “we are looking to serve 600 to 1,200 students, maybe 50 to 100
times our current number.” With the Demonstrator, “We have actually been able to institute new courses
to further use 3D printing technology,” said Emoli. “Without this automated, efficient solution, we would
only be able to serve a small segment of our population.”
Beyond the classroom, SCAD is very focused in its mission to prepare professional students for jobs inthe real world. SCAD partners with leading industry designers, from Microsoft to BMW, in more than 36
industry design projects each year. The increased access the new Demonstrator provides makes it “atool to actually help students land those jobs, not only to start their careers but to push their innovation
to the next level, to go out into their fields and effect change,” said Emoli.

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