The world's first fully 3D printed boat which is both seaworthy and printed in one single piece
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- On December 16, 2020, we tested a 3D printed motorboat for the very first time by launching it into the Swedish west coast archipelago in the middle of winter.
This is the first fully 3D printed boat which is both printed in a single piece and fully functional without substantial post-processing.
Swedish press release from RISE (www.ri.se/sv/p...)
Contact person: Emil Johansson, RISE, emil.johansson@ri.se.
For the last two months, me and my colleagues Lenny Tönnäng and Jan Johansson at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden have worked with Pioner boats and Cipax to develop a 3D printed motorboat. It has been printed in a fiber reinforced plastic using an industrial robot based 3D printer developed in collaboration with ABB.
But, as we all know, 3D printing a boat is one thing. What we really wanted to know was if it actually worked in demanding real life circumstances. This is why we have decided to try it out in the archipelago outside Gothenburg, Sweden.
The boat has been developed through a collaboration between Cipax AB, Cipax A/S, owner of Pioner boats, and the Swedish Research Institute RISE, within the research project DiLAM. The project is supported by VINNOVA, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas through Produktion2030. Project partners are RISE, Chalmers University of Technology, ABB Robotics, SICK, Robot System Products (RSP), KFM Maskin, Randek, Melker of Sysslebäck, Skara Modell & Prototyp, Svenska Woody, Prodma, Combitech, Unibap, BLB Industries, Nederman, Cipax, Tand The Wood Region.
I would like to thank Magnus Walander for helping me capture this moment of a lifetime in the video above.
Any videos with practical uses, test ramming into piers or other boats, these all seem like a fancy boat commercial?
Next question is, can you print more 3D printers with 3D printers？like how we use to manufacture CNC components with CNC machines during idle times
Yes, it is a point I also always wondered. Luckily additive manufacturing machine systems are having printed components
Yes.
Why they didn't fill the hollow space with honeycomb structure for extra strength?
The main reason was to reduce weight and printing time
Pretty sure univeristy of maine got you beat on this record
They tried their boat in a pool. To me that is not the same as the ocean during winter ;)
@@EmilJohansson lol
@@EmilJohansson pretty sure their boat was still a water tight monocoque hull.
@@EmilJohansson To be fair, I put my boat into a Research Wind/Wave testing basin specifically designed to test boats. :-) But, the Marines just finished sea trials of our much larger 20m and 6m boats last week.
@@mirtftgmail2502 That's amazing. Congratulations! I hope you can forgive my tongue in cheek comment:)
thats awesome....
Har ni utforskat möjligheten till att även kunna producera RIB-båtar med samma process genom att ersätta konventionell termoplast mot en termoelast?
Spännande idé! Vi har printat elastomerer baserade på polyuretan tidigare men bara relativt små komponenter. Det är ett lite bökigare material att 3D-printa.
@@EmilJohansson Kan förstå det. Får man fråga vad företagets kärnverksamhet är och om maskinen redan körs i produktion eller håller på integreras i produktionsprocessen?
@@OB1canblowme Absolut. Båten är printad inom ett forskningsprojekt jag ledde på RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (kärnverksamhet forskning och utveckling). Jag har sedan dess lämnat RISE för att starta en startup för göra programvara för robotbaserad 3D printing. Processen används idag vid produktion av flera olika produkter, bland annat hos det Karlshamns-baserade företaget Sculptur (sculptur.se). Ledsen för det långa svaret.
@@EmilJohansson Intressant, förvånad att man aldrig hört talas om RISE innan. Verkar ju vara en organisation med relativt stora resurser om man bedriver FoU på industriell mjukvara och hårdvara på den nivån. Bara alla licenser och ISO-standarder för ett sånt projekt lär ju ligga norr om en genomsnittlig årslön😂
That’s where you’re wrong two years ago someone made a 3-D printed it offshore fishing boat
What was the build time and total cost, vs similar traditional boat?
Build time was about 3 days (72 h) although we took it a bit slow to be sure of success. We have not done a full cost comparison yet. For large series it will be significantly more expensive right now. For small series production it is cheaper.
@@EmilJohansson This is great for prototyping new boat hulls. I wonder if the process can be used to make hull molds for fiberglass production.
@@minihackerme they've already done it. I believe.
@@minihackerme for sure if they can print the boat they can print them mold. However the print texture will remain, but skimming with an appropriate fairing compound would deliver the finish needed for a mold.
@@geoffsmith2182 Well to get rid of the seams of the individual layers primer and filler could easily be used - like you use for painting automotive parts - then it could be sanded to a super-smooth finished and used to make a mold!
Maybe it could also be printed "solid".
and then used to "pressure form" a large enough metal sheet of say 1,5mm or 2mm and create a one-piece-hull that way?!
Although I am not familiar with boat construction and do not know if a 1,5mm or 2mm metal sheet hull would be strong enough...
I guess it could always be made into a cavity wall constructiin of two such metal hulls filled/sandwiched with a byuont foam in between - would give a super rigid hull for sure!
what kind of plastic?
What is path accuracy achieved?
Thats pretty cool, what are the advantages of 3d printing it? im guessing not the economics
Great for prototyping and testing. It would take much longer to manufacture a brand new design the traditional way.
There isn’t really any If you used this for any amount of time I’d imagine it would de laminate
@@jjjk7895 well it could be heat-treated afterwards - or coated in epoxy and the could lay several layers of fiberglass on top of that epoxy and create an ABS-Plastic/Fibreglas Composite structure - which coul then easily withstand years in the ocean with the right paint/top-coat!
@@kniefi seems like a vey inefficient way to make a boat in my opinion
Shorter development cycles, manufacturing steps and lead time
how long will it last in use? will the sun eventually make it brittle?
Difficult to say at this time unfortunately. The material is traditional PP reinforced with glass fibre and it should therefore in theory hold up quite well. However, it is possible that the layerwise process accelerates the degradation.
Whats the value of the 3d printer ?
lower cost, faster production, less waste
@@TriggeredForDays not sure about lower Cost.
Just curious why they build 3d printers like that? I mean from a manufacturing perspective this type of additive manufacturing takes to long to be cost effective. Where as if you engaged a stand laser printer system you could engage multiple printers in a continues print operation allowing for multiple printers working on through put for a given item.
You could likely speed print time up by 2 orders of magnitudes verses this current ridiculous arm system you've got going on and with cameras and redundancy you could insure print quality remains consistent.
Large scale 3D printing of plastic is usually done using material extrusion using pellet fed screw extruders. You dont have to use a robotic arm for that. You can of course use a gantry. However, robots are cost effective, widely available and offer six axis material deposition. This kind of printer setup is not unique. You will find many others like these used by the industry.
Could you tell me more about the laser technology that would give the performance improvement. 2 orders of magnitude is about 750 kg/h in deposition rate.
The fact that a bunch of 'one and done' demo boats came out, but that's it, they never caught on, is pretty telling about the viability of this tech
The real business case ended up being for more industrial parts, like mould tools. So similar in many ways, but not a consumer product.
Clicked on this video to see the world's first 3D printed boat the video shows everything except a 3D printed boat. Quit trying to be so freaking artistic show the damn boat.
Pity the video is not more informative. Artistic video of birds and scenery is nice, but not what one is looking for when clicking on a link with this title. So no thumbs up from me.
There will be more informative material coming after the holidays. We wanted to release some video of the boat launch quickly to show that it actually worked and we did not sink.
Damn. Print a boat and no thumb up. Back to the 'ol drawing board.