Towards additive manufacturing of intermediate objects (AMIO) for concepts generation

Anne Lise Rias (1) , Frederic Segonds (1, 2, 3) , Carole Bouchard (1) , Stephane Abed (4)

1 LCPI - Laboratoire Conception de Produits et Innovation
2 Arts et Métiers ParisTech
3 ENSAM - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
4 Poly-Shape

According to an analysis of existing Design For Additive Manufacturing (DFAM)methods,we first highlight that they present limits regarding product innovation. This paper then presents a creative approach to be integrated in the early stages of DFAMmethods. Two case studiesA and B are presented as the experimental application of the first stage of our creative approach. The results of these case studies highlight that designers need a newkind of IntermediateRepresentation (IR), especially to represent dynamic features. To address this need, we introduce the concept of AMIO Additive Manufacturing of Intermediate Objects. This new kind of IR is an expected output of the ideas generation stage. These intermediate objects are meant to be manipulated by all the design stakeholders, as an input for the concept generation stage, to enhance the generation of creative concepts for additive manufacturing.

Mots clés: Design for additive manufacturing; Creative design; Intermediate objects; Additive manufacturing; manufacturing; Creativity

Domaines: Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Anne Lise Rias, Frederic Segonds, Carole Bouchard, Stephane Abed. Towards additive manufacturing of intermediate objects (AMIO) for concepts generation. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 2017, pp.1-15. ⟨10.1007/s12008-017-0369-0⟩. ⟨hal-01646679⟩