3D Printing a Titanium Part Created By Artificial Intelligence

[Music] most of everything we interact with on a daily basis has been designed and manufactured by a person or a group of people but what if we left the designing up to artificial intelligence what would that look like today we're going to put that to the test we're going to 3d print a part that was entirely designed by ai how many hours will this save us and what are the benefits of using ai to design parts and oh yeah one last thing we're going to 3d print the part out of titanium there's a hundred pounds of titanium inside of this box it's ti-6al4v titanium metal powder for 3d printing this powder is from ap and c the parts that we're going to print with this powder they were not designed by a human this is grade 23 titanium has a particle size of 15 to 45 microns 15 microns is six ten thousandths of an inch 45 microns is one thousand seven tenths all right let's go load our material into the true print 2000 and print this beast in order to get the true print 2000 set up we need to install our titanium build plate and our recoder lip so our build plate is actually made out of titanium which is the same material that we're printing with and it has to be that way in order to weld to the build plate [Music] all right so we moved our recoder to the leftmost position install my thumb screws get them nice and tight and that's it now i'm going to use my setup wizard to go ahead and remove our supply cylinder to take it over to the powder prep station so now we're going to make the connection between the powder prep station and our supply cylinder using this butterfly valve right here now we're going to install our ground strap we want to do that because titanium powder is actually reactive so static electricity things like that can give you a really bad day [Applause] let me show you the crazy part that we're going to print with it here's the model we're going to be printing with our titanium it's an injector head for a rocket engine this entire model was created using an algorithmic engineering platform developed by a company called hyperganic so this method of engineering is extremely useful because it saves engineers a ton of time using computer code and algorithms to design parts like this is extremely beneficial for example on this part we have six combustion chambers each one of these ports is a coaxial swirl injector element and if you look closely the injector elements closer to the center have a bigger diameter which gives them the optimal mixing ratio and they can do that because they're further away from the chamber wall so they don't run the risk of burning up the chamber wall now traditionally engineers wouldn't take the time to go through and optimize these because it would take them forever but using algorithms the engineer can easily optimize the mixing ratio of these ports and they can do it quickly and efficiently the best part of hyperganic's platform is it can be completely open source and it's going to be released on june 15th so any engineer around the world can go on create an algorithm and make insane parts like this one all right let's put our powder containers into our cabin and then we're going to inert the chamber of this guy and then we'll load it into a supply cylinder alrighty we're good so our argon gas has filled this entire glove box and there's under one percent of oxygen inside of here now we can crack open those containers and pour it down our funnel so our supply cylinder has a volume of roughly 15 000 cubic centimeters and our powder has a bulk density of about 2.6 grams per cubic centimeter so when you do the math you end up with about 39 000 grams in volume worth of titanium powder and then when you translate that into kilograms you get about 39 kilograms of powder to fill our supply cylinder so we're going to go just shy of that and do 37 and a half kilograms worth of titanium powder while our powder is filtering into our supply cylinder we're going to prepare our build job by uploading our file so now the only thing left to do is assign the multi-laser function to do that we're going to hold our file we're going to drag it down here to this laser and now that that's done you can see this multi-laser option up here we're going to take this we're going to drag it up there until it turns green and now you can tell that half of it's orange and half of it's yellow and that means it's assigned our multi-laser function we're going to hit our green check and now we're ready to rock and roll all right to set our first layer we have our build plate about a millimeter below zero we're gonna coat the entire thing with titanium powder and then we're gonna move it up about a half millimeter at a time until we have a very thin layer of titanium across our build plate and then we're going to hit print we're going to make this crazy part you guys are going to love it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh look at that man when i saw this model i was excited but now holding this thing it's a whole nother level of excitement i mean look at this thing it turned out so beautiful now you guys might notice on the front we have a cutaway we want to do that to show you guys the complexity of the inside geometry of this part but make no mistake if this cutaway wasn't here this would be a fully functional injector head and it was only made possible using algorithmic engineering and hypergamic core platform we were able to optimize our parameters on our true print 2000 and print it with absolutely no supports now the no supports thing is pretty cool because we have some really shallow overhanging angles we have an internal cooling channel running through here now this part printed in 48 hours on our trump true print 2000 one of the best things about the algorithmic engineering approach that was used to design this part is it takes additive manufacturing to a whole new level i'm really happy with the way our print turned out but we're not done yet we still have to wire our part off our build plate so let's head over to our av 35 and let's get it done boom ready to rock and roll i mean look at this fixture is money dude [Music] do [Music] wow man it turned out so clean oh it's so awesome it's hard not to get excited about the future manufacturing when i look at this part the ability to generate crazy designs like this is going to take manufacturing to a whole other level not only that but we have to print these parts so to have our trooper in 2000 be able to print something like this out of titanium this is just a tip of the iceberg the possibilities with algorithmic design and 3d printing is absolutely endless they're using this technology in bio printing aerospace all kinds of different areas so i'm excited to see where this goes hope you guys enjoyed watching us make this part this is the most insane part i've ever made in my life and i'm happy i could share with you guys for free tutorial videos check out our academy at academy.titansofcnc.com do you want to see more additive content check out our additive playlist don't forget to like and subscribe and we'll see you guys next time [Music] you'll never guess what's inside this box i need that box to stop right here okay you made me laugh dude it

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Id: hxKI4XBwBjU

Length: 8min 6sec (486 seconds)

Published: Thu May 19 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Tgfvr112221]

That is extremely interesting. Definitely could see how the future of 3D printing is game changing, especially when coupled with AI.

[u/KytaKamena]

Is that a crack in the finished print?

[u/TDHofstetter]

There is nothing "AI" about that.

[u/Grofactor]

Algorithmic hyperganic sound like made up words…