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| Rapid Prototyping at Bradley |
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Bradley University offers a sculpture course in three-dimensional
modeling and rapid prototyping. The course was developed with the
help of a grant written by art professor Fisher Stolz and Arnold Ness
who is a professor in the Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering
Technology Department. This course was one of the first sculpture
courses in the nation to make use of rapid prototyping. Students design
sculpture using SolidWorks then output the designs via rapid prototyping.
Stolz has continued to research methods of rapid prototyping, including FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling). In this process of semi-liquid wax or thermoplastic is extruded and then deposited in layers to build the object. Through a partnership with the newly formed Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, Stolz and Bradley students now build designs using direct investment casting on a Stratasys Prodigy Plus rapid prototyping machine. To learn more about Fisher Stolz's work visit his website. |