Design for Additive Manufacturing: Supporting Intrinsic-Motivated Creativity

Abstract

Emotional aspects and designers' motivations in Design For Additive Manufacturing are rarely studied. Still, as they can influence creative behaviors, it is worth of interest to draw some bases for a relation between designers' motivations and the field of Additive Manufacturing. This paper aims at identifying the motivations that push designers to deal with AM in their practice. We have highlighted that they experience some extrinsic motivations: technical improvements, economics and social environments pressures. We also notice that creative designers, apart from AM, usually experience some intrinsic motivations and, moreover, that it exists an ideal state to generate creative concepts: the Flow. To support creative designers in DFAM in reaching the Flow, we then identified 4 key levers through the potential of AM: the newness of AM processes, the needed skill of 3D modelling, the investigation of new shape grammars and finally the opportunity of embodying concepts into physical objects. To benefit from this potential, we assume that designers' intrinsic motivations should be supported: we identified three required conditions. The first one is the use of a proper vocabulary i.e the expression Additive Manufacturing instead of 3D Printing. The second one is the development of a design process which integrates a creative approach. The third condition is the use of AM objects as experience triggers during creative sessions to arise positive emotions.

Selection methodology for additive manufacturing processes considering design, material, and manufacturability

“…The designers experience extrinsic motivations like improving technicalities, design, process, production-related economics and pressure from social environments. Flow is the ideal state to generate a creative concept (Rias et al , 2017). Ponche et al focused on part orientation during production, optimizing functions and manufacturing paths while adhering to DfAM (Ponche et al , 2014).…”

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“…The hope of employees from the organization is to provide them appropriate training courses to increase the level of satisfaction (Maksuc, 2016). According to Rias et al, (2017), Rockmann et al, (2017), Turner, A., (2017), Bear et al, (2017), Brehma et al, (2017) and Maksuc (2016), job satisfaction comprises certain areas, for example, good amount of pay, opportunities, rewards, security of jobs and flexible workplace.…”

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“…The work of Maidin et al [7] in developing an AM feature database indicated the value of providing primarily opportunistic AMK in the early design stages. Another approach [18] to facilitating creativity amongst designers is to examine the motivations of the designers in developing AM-specific concepts, assuming that there is an ideal state in which to one is able to generate creative concepts. To reach such a state, examples from other domains are drawn.…”