Digital fabrication is a design and manufacturing workflow where digital data directly drives manufacturing equipment to produce all sorts of part geometries.
This workshop will explore the various workflows to implement data driven design for circular economy. We will cover techniques to design with waste or left over from the building industry as input materials, from transforming data into 3d models, to physical prototypes using iterative and agile design processes.

From the software to the hardware for CNC cutting to additive and subtractive manufacturing tools, the core goal of the workshop is to provide participants with the necessary foundation for creating designs thoughtful of the fabrication and assembly processes with the challenging complexity of circular economy.

• File preparation for 3d printing / laser cutting / CNC routing
• Export drawings and data for production
• Gcode generation for 3d printing / laser cutting / CNC routing
• Management of custom parts : sorting, labelling
• Nesting and optimization for parts production
• A look at advanced Digital Fabrication with parametric design with reused materials

• Rhinoceros 7 (free versions available)
• A second monitor is highly recommended

The principal software is Rhinoceros 7.0. The 90-day trial version can be downloaded from the website www.rhino3d.com/eval.html . Grasshopper will be the main computational tool.

Windows operating system is highly recommended since many of the Grasshopper plugins still do not run on Apple IOS operating systems. For the MAC users, we suggest creating a secondary partition using BootCamp and install Windows10.