Experimenting with 3D Printed Fabric 

The one with the bowl was way more fabric-y than the triangular mesh

Millennial grandmas are gonna be 3d printing quilts 50 years from now

You could make blinds with it so when the sun comes up the light is diffused into the room in a grid-like pattern.

"Unique bowl" accidentally creates a steamer basket out of plastic

When you’re at a friends house and they don’t give you a blanket

Grandma now: knits you a sweater Grandma in the future: 3D prints you a sweater

Real life fabric with the same number of polys as video game fabric.

A 3d neck tie would be a nice addition to my closet.

Considering the way light passes through it, I think it would make for some really awesome curtains!

If this was the 70's, you'd be making a fortune making screen doors.

The bowl with the 3D printed cloth I think it’s perfect for a sieve for sifting some rocks.

Dude... You can LITERALLY have an art gallery and make 💰 the last one standing on it's own. "Plastic blanket" with natural window sunlight casting cool shadows? Hell yeah

I feel like you could use the one as a strainer instead of a bowl.

You could make a good curtain with this if you want soft light to wake you up in the morning, floor mat if its strong enough, table cloth(if you spill, the holes drain the water), and multiple architectural structures. Its unique properties could make a cloth chair one day

The way the triangular one was able to hold a shape might make it a perfect material for large-scale camouflage.

This has some amazing cosplay potential!

YES! finally a fabric i can print and use to wipe my tears away when my other prints fail!

As an art teacher at the local school I think especially that self-standing fabric is interesting for teaching lighting and shadows and three dimensional drawing!

Me when I'm a grandma making plastic quilts for my grandchildren.

10:48 that could be used to make self standing structures, like for tents and stuff

Awesome man ...........try using translucent material will look awesome I think

"Oh, I just Broke my pants"

Just got my first printer, wanted you to know that even 3 yrs later this video is still providing inspiration for projects. Very cool prints man!

This is legit the very first video that actually made me want a 3D printer. Absolutely *_stellar_* job on the triangle fabric! I may or may not try to use that concept somehow.

Love that material you made the bowl with.

If you re-visit this kind of thought, I suggest you look into Chain Mail, Ring Mail, and Scale Mail. Those were essentially the first real forms of metal cloth (In that it is a flexible sheet that can be 'stitched' together to form pieces like clothing and bags). And understanding the rudimentary differences in form and qualities between an Oriental 4-in-1 weave or a European 4-in-1 or European 6-in-1 could give you a pretty firm grasp on how to try to push yourself further into making different or newer forms to play with. Actually, your Triangular patterns there kind of remind me of an Oriental 3-in-1 design. Where each triangle is connected to 3 others by a linkage. I also want to say that as a Maille weaver, it made be cringe just a little bit when I saw your squared off joins and rings. learning how to do the same thing with toroid shapes would make it feel smoother on the skin in any direction that it would rub over, on either side. Also, your scales: typically, in traditional scale mail, you might find it interesting that each scale has its connection hole in the very top, and is connected from there to each of its four neighbors by a link between them. That way, as the finished piece lies flat, the linkages are hidden by the layer above. If you would like, I can point you in the direction of some Chain mailling resources that are fairly simple to delve into and understand, so you can dissect the forms of various weaves, and further understand the sizing of the rings (Both in inner diameter and thickness) affect the flexibility, durability, and such of the piece.

4:35 I love the way that looks, I'm really impressed! I could totally see printing that and connecting all the pieces together to make a big quilt, adding a soft plush quilt fabric beneath. Very, very interesting

Genius! Thank you for expanding the possibilities of 3D printing :)

How bout a Hammock? Not durable enough? Won't hold the weight? Still it'd be cool!

Dude, this is SO COOL.

3:29 who else recognized that as an inside reverse fold from origami?

"This triangle dancing around my room" My mind: pumped up kicks yellow triangle.

I think you need to make yourself a Christmas sweater

I liked your 'final' design. I can't wait to see what it evolves into.

great to see videos like this to show you how creative you can be with a 3d printer can't wait to get mine!

imagine having a jacket made out of this stuff! That'd look hella cyperpunk

I personally liked the one the 'bowl' thing was made of... What if you'd mix using this technique and flexible material, then just remove all sharp edges, so ist more like interlocking rings instead of rectangles. Sounds like this could possibly make it a much softer fabric... Anyway very interesting and nice attempts...

Be great to print in a clear material to use with light sources.

Imagine if you had a printer with a build size of 10 feet. You could stretch them out as far as they go, glue fabric over the tops of the triangles, and you literally have a self-standing tent

This is a really cool experiment and I really enjoyed watching it.

Imagine the triangle design, just metal, and on super cool looking armour.

my favorite one was the bowl one without the strong border

OMG I am in love with this video!! thank you very much s2

Thanks for sharing your experiments as well as your successes. Interesting stuff

The one you turned into a bowl was a lot more fabricy. Should have focused on that instead of the one you did, cause the one you focused in wasn't fabricy at all. Just looked like flexible plastic scales. Especially with how the back was all rough and weird.

wow simply amazing, i love the rigid circle with "flowy" middle, it can really demonstrate to people the extend of different things a 3D printer can do, keep being awesome!

There's so much potential for this in fashion....you've inspired me

This is fabulous, Devon. Think this might have all sorts of architectural and sculptural applications for some really wonderful flowing space shapes. Thanks for sharing the fruits of your mind with us, always stunning to see powerful ideas in action, may you continue to find pleasure in your inventiveness so that we might also!

Something about that shiny white hexy material just *screams* Sci-fi!

I still like the bowl fabric the most tho...

dude!! this just blew my mind...i was thinking about getting into 3d printing, this just made me 10x more excited

This is awesome. I think one area where these types of 3D-printed fabrics could really shine is in bags and backpacks. They don't sit against your body so they don't have to be comfortable, and they don't have to be incredibly flexible.

whoooooa 3d quilting

Make a window shade that can make light go trough less and more by contracting the thing like when you play with it by putting it between two transparent glass/plastic and have something to push it from the bottom to make less light go through

Thanks for providing your test files!

Love these fabrics that you have created.

Hey Devin, this is absolutely brilliant. Keep up the good work. Cheers, JAYTEE

Loving the projects so far. You’re very creative. Much support!!!!

Great innovative ideas dude👌

Back in my junior year of college, I took a 3D print shop class. It was really one of my favorite classes ever! For my final project, I was heavily inspired by this video to try and recreate your fabric in Rhino 3D and print it on a flashforge. It took me almost 5 tries and two weeks of tinkering, but I managed to get my own 3D fabric for my final. However, it's still not as nice nor as flowey as your version here. I can think of having some strong polycarbonate material in a 3D printer to create a mail like this to make a bulletproof armor of some kind in the future. But who knows what the potential of 3D printing can bring. Anyway, still one of my all time favorite inventions on the internet, so keep up the good work!

Sorry, I slept it! Uploading the files now :P

Honestly the material that the bowl was made of was so much cooler and more like a fabric than that triangular junk

I love the round one and the bowl idea!

Very cool stuff love your enthusiasm

constantly blown away by your ingenuity. truly unique mind

My cr-10 is printing the triangle mesh right now!!

5:27 it could be a strainer

Love it! Thank you for sharing! :D

Cons of 3D printed fabric cannot absorb water for example like wiping your face

These could be very very effective strainers xD

Fantastic work! Pioneer!

A few of these i see a few ideas but i think you should try the flexible filament they have nowadays I myself am looking to try this since i recently purchased a 3d printer.

This is actually really interesting! It reminds me of a purse I used to have with a metal "fabric" made from hexagons.

You should sell these as luxury fidget toys

Amazing! Someone probably thought of this but that would make a cool handbag!

I just found your channel and i'm impressed and happy!! Thank you so much!! Btw i'm from the country Georgia 🇬🇪

You could probably use the last big one as a bath mat or put it over a bath mat for a cool texture

9:50 "We will Rock you." "We will rock you."

i know a lot of time has passed since this video was made, but i especially liked the bowl/holder type fabric you made, would make for an interesting sort of usable decoration in someone's bedroom i'd think. such a neat concept

wowww that's really awesome. 3D printing has so much potential I can't even believe it

Here's an idea off the top of my head! Would it be possible to print your quilting tiles in varying tones of the same color? I think having a "quilt" with a soft color transition waving across it would be pretty! Also I wonder if a thermally insulated blanket could be made! And I'll bet you could make some cool hats with this stuff! This is awesome! ~Arctic

Hmm... 3d printed blankets...

This is lit, great work!

looks cool. and has possibilities!👌👏👏

wow, this is very interesting to cosplay!! you can make chainmails and more

I think you forgot about Vase Exploration.

You were all like interesting light and I was all like "it looks like a fishing net..."

Plus, thank you for sharing your files, mad lad

One use, is to print flexible solar panels

Could this be done with something similar to Ninjaflex filament, IE. a flexible filament to make it even more Fabric like?

The rigid/solid combo that you made could have application as a specially made filter of sorts

they all looked really great.

Could you just make me an outfit real quick

Can you make that fabric, fold/make it in to a sphere and make like a globe, earth.

So creative and satisfying to watch aaa

Thank you for sharing this.👍👍

Isn’t this how graphics rendering of surfaces works. Many Triangles and quads ..

I would so love to experiment making wearable things with your fabrics you are fantastic. I love this so much I am always looking for new fabrics I think that what you are doing here is so awesome I wonder if you can put actual fabric on the tray at the edge of the samples you print and print on to the fabric as an edge so that then I could actually seW it on a sewing machine? so you could make the printed part attach to the fabric? I would love to discuss more ideas with you

Fantastic work

No waaaay! This is so cooool!