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Title: PunchPrint: Creating Composite Fiber-Filament Craft Artifacts by Integrating Punch Needle Embroidery and 3D Printing
New printing strategies have enabled 3D-printed materials that imitate traditional textiles. These filament-based textiles are easy to fabricate but lack the look and feel of fiber textiles. We seek to augment 3D-printed textiles with needlecraft to produce composite materials that integrate the programmability of additive fabrication with the richness of traditional textile craft. We present PunchPrint: a technique for integrating fiber and filament in a textile by combining punch needle embroidery and 3D printing. Using a toolpath that imitates textile weave structure, we print a flexible fabric that provides a substrate for punch needle production. We evaluate our material’s robustness through tensile strength and needle compatibility tests. We integrate our technique into a parametric design tool and produce functional artifacts that show how PunchPrint broadens punch needle craft by reducing labor in small, detailed artifacts, enabling the integration of openings and multiple yarn weights, and scaffolding soft 3D structures.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2026286
PAR ID:
10483025
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ACM
Date Published:
Journal Name:
2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)
ISBN:
9781450394215
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 15
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Hamburg Germany
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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