CreateYourOwnTableLampl Manual en V1 Low

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Manual

Table lamps made easy

i.materialise Table Lamp - V1


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Introdu

ction

Contents

Introduction - 3

Design Kit - 6

Example - 12

Design by Hans Palacios


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Introdu

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i.materialise is a 3D printing service or everybody with an eye or design

and a head ull o ideas.We want you to ocus on the creation o designs made by you that add

value to peoples lives, while we do the manuacturing.

We want to be the power behind your design.

Theres something special about physically holding

a design youve spent so many hours on.

Most people buy a lamp, extraordinary people design

Perhaps you have never designed a lamp beore, but you are experienced in using 3D

modeling sotware like Rhino, 3D Studio Max, Google SketchUp or Blender. We will help

you to turn your idea into a one-o-a-kind table lamp. Lets get you on the right track.

Design by Patricia.Lopes

Design by Zach Hines & Oliver Dibrovan


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How does it work?

Its simple.

We oer you a building volume with xed dimensions or your lamp

shade. With our design kit, you can prepare your le or production.

We ll oer you the ollowing items: (rom let to right)

a lamp base with a dimmer

a 3d printed lamp shade with a glued G9

tting ring

a bulb

a small leafet explaining the installation, saety,

and usage guidelines


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Download the Design kit

On the website you can select the sotware program you want to design

in. In these les youll nd the dierent layers with aids and guides, which

will help you make your design printable.

You can choose rom the ollowing le types:

Google SketchUp .skp

Rhino .3dm

Blender .blend

3ds Max .3ds

Waveront .obj

TIP Once youve selected

and downloaded the

kit, you can get started.However, its best to

read through the man-

ual and get to know

the dos and donts.


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DesignKit

Content Design kit

Open the design kit in your 3D

modeling program and you will nd:

The base

The Spherical saety zone

The lamp tting

A reerence shade


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DesignKit

Step 1 - Size lampshade

Bounding box

With the xed price o the lamp comes a bounding box and your designhas to t inside o this box. So, its a good to take this into account when

starting your design in order to avoid having to rescale your design ater-

wards.

A cube o 13mm or

5.12 inches is the

maximum size that

your lampshade can

be.

Example

To help you design your lampshade, we

have added an example to one o the

layers. You can use it as a template or as a

reerence. The choice is yours.

TIP Important! Designing within the bounding boxes is obliga-

tory and designs which go out o bounds will be rejected..

13mm

13mm

13

mm


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DesignKit

Fitting ring

We make use o a standard com-

ponent to attach the shade to

the base. This standard compo-

nent will be inserted and glued

to the lamp tting (blue) by us.

It is important or you, as the

designer, to be aware o this andmake use o this blue part in your

design.

Step 2 - Lamp ftting

The second step is all about making sure your shade ts the lamp base.

We have inserted an item called a lamp tting in the design kit.

TIP You need to nd a way to rmly attach this lamp tting to the shade.

You can see a ew examples how to do that below.

Securing

Once the tting ring is attached to your

lampshade, we can use the thread to

secure it to the base.

By turning the shade counterclockwise

the shade will be attached.To release it,

you turn the shade clock wiser


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Step 3 - Saety

Saety

Since were dealing with electricity, you have to make sure

to include a spherical zone around the light bulb o 6

cm / 2.4 inches. This zone needs to remain completely

open (hollow); it cannot contain any material. The starter kit

contains a 6 cm / 2.4 inch sphere to perorm this saety

check. Place the sphere inside your lamp shade and make

sure they dont intersect.

Airfow

Include an opening or the cooling o your lamp by allowing

airfow. When you have ordered and uploaded your table

lamp, we also do this saety check ourselves.This way we can

deliver the saest product possible.

3cm

1.2inch

3cm

1.2 inch

TIP You should hide the light bulb in your lamp design. Not just

or aesthetic reasons, but because the light produced can be

pretty bright.


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Step 4 - Checklist

Design guide

Check the general design rules

or polyamide on our webpage.

Content upload

Delete the reerences beore

uploading. Keep the lamp tting

in place in your design.

Wall thickness

Check the wall thicknesses. The walls o your model need to be at least 0.8/1

mm thick and on-surace details or imprints can be 0.4 to 0.5 mm. Ideally the

wall thickness varies between 1.5 and 3 mm.

Go over the ollowing items to veriy whether

your design is ready or uploading.

13mm

13mm

13m

m

Material

Models in polyamide are con-

structed rom a white, very ne,

granular powder. The result is

a strong, somewhat fexible

material that can take small im-

pacts and resist some pressure

while being bent. The surace

has a sandy, granular look, and

is slightly porous.

Building volume

Make sure your design

ts inside o the building

volume. I your model

is too big, rescale, but

make sure you dont lose

too much wall thickness

by doing so.
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Step 5 - Upload

Upload

In order to have your design to be recognized as a ta-

ble lamp you need to upload via the table lamp page.

Once you have selected your le and pressed open, your le will be up-

loaded to our 3D print lab.

Preview

When the upload is complete, a preview will be generated. This way, you

can see i the upload was done correctly.

Material

The material will be automatically selected since we only oer the table

lamp shade in Polyamide. Choosing another material isnt possible.

Color

The color is limited to white. Selecting another color is not possible.

Checkout

I you are happy with everything, you can complete the order by press-

ing the checkout button. You ll be able to select the kind o plug you

would like to recieve.
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Exam

ple

Example: Doorhandle by Hans Palacios

1 Hans designed a shade or a table

lamp and would like to have a

real lie model o it. He down-

loads the i.materialise table lampkit. He selects Google SketchUp..

2 Hans uses the dierent layers

and reerences to adjust his

design to the building volume,check the saety zone and at-

tach o the tting.

3 Once he is happy with the model, he press-

es the upload button and selects his skp le.

His le is quite big, so he visits some other

websites while it uploads. The progress bar

keeps him updated on its status.

4 Once the model is uploaded, he presses the

checkout button and selects the type o plug he

wants to have it delivered with.

5 When the model is uploaded on the i.materialise website,

Hans proceeds through the necessary steps and orders his

lamp. Hans receives his 3D printed shade and metal basein mail. The lamp looks awesome, and is exactly how he

pictured it!

Design by Hans Palacios


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Enjoy your 3D printed lamp

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