Is Digital Knitting a form of 3D Printing?
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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Video Transcript: Whether you use a purist definition of 3D printing to answer that question, or are more inclusive, what is harder to argue is that more and more 'additive creative machines', are emerging across the expanding 'maker movement' - machines that make things, additively, following digital instructions.
What we are talking here is not based on FDM or Freeform Fabrication 3D printing processes. This is called OpenKnit and represents the revolution of Soft Digital Fabrication. An OpenKnit machine is in many ways similar to an FDM/FFF 3D printer, except it makes clothes. It uses needles and a needle carriage instead of an extruder head. The carriage is controlled by an encoder that moves it and knows its exact position at any time. Instead of filament there are three threads, one for each tubular section of the garment, and three thread guides that move them along.
Like many 3D printers, OpenKnit is controlled by an Arduino Leonardo board, and just like a 3D printer it follows instructions from a digital file. Gerardo Rubio created the machine, that he intends to sell for less than €550 as a mean to counteract current clothing industry dynamics, that have concentrated on mass fabrication of textile goods and low costs through precarious working conditions, with an inevitable and damaging impact on society and the environment.
Rubio says he was inspired by the RepRap project and refers to the OpenKnit machine as a printer. Lately the definition of 3D printing has become fuzzier. For sure this can be considered a digital manufacturing additive process and that may be enough to consider it 3D printing.
Check out the OpenKnit introduction video:
I'm an industrial machine knitter and knitwear designer. No it's actually not a 3D printer , although it makes 3D items. The technology has been in existance before 3D printing. In fact jacquad weaving loom and knitting are the basis for original computer card programming. Rubio is incorrect , this machine prints nothing it does however fabricate loops that create a garment. The whole link to 3D printing is a marketing ploy. The disruption? I get that, however there are hardly any hand machine factories in existence any more and most knitwear is produced on state-of-the-art electronic machines. The amchines are opeerated by highly trained people and even in China , they get paid more sustainable living wage. Actually these machines are very inexpensive and will probably end up in factories all over India and Africa, so sthe " labor abuse" angle can be exploited. In the ned Rubio makes a case for poorly designed knitwear produced by non-knitwear designers who actually understand the technology. The garments aren't very sophisticated. Good for home useers just like Brother and Passap amchines , which have had the ability to be motorized for more than a decade. PR spin is my take.
Loom have been considered some of the earliest types of computers after all.
Computers were based on looms, not teh otehr way around.
plz uplode the making of 3d printing in textile field and there manufacturing of textile product.
So a computer driven loom is considered a 3d printer, makes sense in a weird way
This is where 3D printing stops being a technology and becomes a concept-ish.
Great observation by the way.
LOL that's a fuck ton of work to make a shirt. Leave it to the experts.