Design of a 3D Printer and Integrated Supply System

Abstract

The 3D printing, now a day is a used resource that is increasing commercially. An important part of 3D printing is to provide printable material to the printer each time when needed, which is basically done with the inclusion of plastic filament reels of which the most common is the PLA, however, this is a final product that is marketed separately. In that situation arises the alternative to be able to recycle and reuse plastic material through disposable bottles that are normally discarded so that they can be used as printable material. In this sense, the present work shows the design of a 3D printer with equipment to supply the filament of different kinds of plastics for the printing. The objective of this project is to be able to integrate the supplying system of plastic material to the printer by supplying recycled plastic bottles that go through a whole process, and thus make the printer work with the supply as a single unit. This project is pretended to raise awareness in the recycling of materials such as plastic to avoid pollution, and by this, the famous three ecological R’s that is Reduce, Reuse and Recycle can be put into practice.