Welcome to the 3D-print and -scan lab of the School of Arts Ghent.
Notice to students: we'll try to include every project but if the preparation takes longer than an hour we'll have to plan according to the current situation.

Location: Offerlaan 5, 9000 Gent, first floor

Open on
Monday Wednesday Friday
10:00 - 16:30 10:00 - 16:30 09:00 - 12:30

Hermanos, one of many clay head sculptures 3D scanned for further digital editing. A work in progress by Tibbe Van Der Peijl

A first test by Fernanda Ureta to mill drawings into floral foam.

Formlab engraved a set of chisels as a way to mark them for use in class.

The Axidraw pen plotter fills large scale characters with a crosshatch pattern.

Dimitris Theocharis designed connector pieces that join carbon fiber rods and parachute fabric to create an elegant tetrahedral structure.

Greta Facchinato experiments with a pen plotter questioning if it possible to apply the craft of ink-making to digital technology.

Pei-Hsuan Wang created a transparent horse for an exhibition in Kunsthal Ghent.

Mathilde Bezon researches the conservation of pastel drawings by using a pen plotter to make consistent colour samples that will be tested in the lab.

Laura De Jaeger puts 3D printed stones next to the original ones in her exhibition.

We used the milling machine to drill a plethora of small holes in a sheet of messing in preparation for EDM machining (outsourced).

Custom shoe soles made by pouring rubber in a 3D printed mould. This design is by Kilian Goderis.

Pin

Danylo Kovalenko converted a sketch into a small and detailed pin.

A bowl with the pattern of leaf veins. Printed flat, then formed over a mould in the oven. Design by Luka Depoortere.

A stamp milled in aluminum for marking clay tiles.

Bringing a 3D print and a growing organism together in an intimate relationship.

A scan of Viktor Froyen was digitally aged and printed.

Experiments with alternative printing methods don't always turn out pretty.

A resin print came loose from the build plate and incorporated its random movements into its body.

A green-yellow tinted spool of recycled filament by Uģis Albiņš.

3D scans of Lilly the fish and some plastic teeth by Milla Van Der Graaf

Modular parts for an animation puppet of Jeanneke Pis. A project by Sofia Erzini

Finishing a resin print made with the Projet 3600. The objects will become necklace pendants of a tiny Jesus crucified on a cross modeled after an IUD. This is a work by Julia Lackner.

Ball and socket-joint tests for a stop motion animation puppet are put in the oven to remove the support wax.