On Demand Printing

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

This session, pupils in our Advanced Higher Graphics class are producing portfolio books, using the on-line ‘on demand’ printer Blurb.com.  Also, pupils in our Higher Graphics class are producing children’s story books using the same on demand printer.

Our 'Review of the Year' book

Our 'Review of the Year' book

We don’t have any examples of pupil work yet, but we have produced a book - a review of activities in the CDT department, and had it printed at Blurb.com.

There are lots more photos of our booklet over at our main web site, and there’s an on-line ‘page flip’ version of the whole book at the following link -

‘Page flip’ version of the book.

S2 CAD/CAM Project

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

This session, pupils in our S2 classes are creating CAD 3D models in Pro/Engineer, and uploading them to www.shapeways.com to be manufactured using the 3D printing process.

3d_printing_0059d2We recently received our first batch of 3D printing from Shapeways.  Photos and renderings of the products are now available to view in a gallery at http://jimblack.jalbum.net/3d_print_gallery/