Factsheet on where to access digital equipment
Facilities available for hire at University College Falmouth Design Centre, Tremough Campus, Penryn
Hidden Art Cornwall Members receive a 10% discount on the hire of some equipment
Equipment available includes:
- CNC Milling: (Bridgeport 3/4/5 Axis Milling Machine VMC1000): Reproduces 3D digital designs by milling from solid blocks of material such as plastic or metal. Bed size: 1000 x 600mm
- Rapid Prototyping (Z Corp 3D Printer): Builds physical forms from 3D digital files. Bed size: 203 x 254 x 203mm
- 3D Laser Scanning (Roland Picza 3D Laser Scanner): Scans physical forms to originate 3D files. Scannable area 406 x 230 mm
- Laser Cutting and Engraving: Uses 2D digital files to precision cut sheet materials such as acrylic, leather, plywood, fabrics etc. Bed size: 990 x 730 mm
- Digital Fabric Printing: Takes 2D digital designs and prints them onto the surface of selected fabrics. Width up to 900mm
- Jacquard Power Loom Weaving: Takes 2D digital designs and replicates them into woven structures.
- Ceramic Decal printing: Takes 2D digital designs and replicates them as transfers that can be permanently fired onto ceramic surfaces. Printed on A3 sheets
- Available soon…………… Brother PR-6002, multi-head digital embroidery machine
See also:
www.autonomatic.org.uk for more details on the equipment available and examples of work produced with it.
Digital facilities/services available for hire at other Higher Education Institutions
Metropolitan Works is a Digital Manufacturing Centre – providing new technology for prototyping, manufacture, research and experimentation. All facilities are available as a bureau service with charges based on production time. Some facilities are also available for hands-on use.
Equipment includes: 3D Scanner objects up to 4800mm long, Digital Printer width up to 1650mm, Laser Cutting up to 1220 x 2440mm, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) machine and a 3D printer in rigid plastic up to 620 x 340 x 340mm. (CNC) Routing the 3-axis router cuts shapes from sheet material up to 1220 x 2440mm. The 5-axis router can produce parts up to 2440 x 4880 and 850mm high
RapidForm brings together the Royal College of Arts’s digital design, prototyping and manufacturing technologies and makes them available to individual designers; access to the facilities is through a bureau service.
Equipment includes: Z-Corp 3D Printer largest model size: 350x250x200mm, FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) largest model size: 355x405x355mm, SLA (Stereo lithography Apparatus) largest model size:
250 x 250 x 250mm, Electron Beam Melting (EBM) largest model size: 200mm x 200mm x 180mm
The Fashion Business Resource Studio at London College of Fashion is able to provide state of the art technological equipment and software. The bureau service has expert technical advice on hand.
Equipment includes: Large format digital textile printing with a Mimaki TX2, Colour management using AVA calibration software, Body scanning, Shoemaster foot scanning.
Innovate is based within the ITTC (Information Technology Transfer Centre) at Tamar Science Park, offering a bureau service for access to the equipment and expertise.
Equipment includes: Rapid Prototyping facility and mobile non-contact 3D digital laser scanner (see website for further information)
Manufacturing companies in Cornwall that run digital equipment not available for hire through Higher Education Institutions
Fibre Fusion, offers waterjet cutting for glass.
Contact: Tel: 01326 378787, Unit 9, Tregoniggie Ind Est, Falmouth
Laser Master, offers laser cutting from metal sheet or plate.
