Digital FabLab (Dream 3D beyond Print)

About the Lab

WCTM Digital FabLab (Dream 3D beyond Print) is a unique learning environment where students can transform their ideas into reality through experimentation, innovation, and quality design. This space allows students to make and test their projects using the latest digital fabrication technology, alongside more traditional woodworking tools, ceramics, and casting with industrial 3D printers of different configurations, and Apple iMac with M3 chip, which is a great way to support research and teaching activities in digital fabrication and the physical making of digital designs. The Lab provides students, researchers and technology enthusiasts a platform to take up applied research activities and develop prototypes. Laboratory is equipped with latest tools and technologies required to facilitate research and prototyping activities. 

“It is not enough to have a good idea or a formal idea. Architects and designers have to think about how those things will actually be made, and there is no better way to do that than by testing and actually building prototypes.”

Objective 

The aim of FabLab is to impart practical knowledge beyond the realms of academic books and prepare students for the industrial expectations after graduation. To give students access to the environment, materials, and advanced technology that can allow that spark of an idea to ignite.

Key Features

•  Innovation, learning and invention for students to play, create, learn and develop.
•  The laboratories boast an arsenal of digital fabrication tools and prototyping devices, including 3D printers, Apple iMac with M3 chip and more.
•  Have access to a workshop with a wide variety of power and hand tools.
•  Fab Lab is a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Manufacturing) learning and idea development centre.

Outcomes

•  Students can bring their ideas to life with equipment including laser cutters and a 3D printer.
•  Knowledge of the traditional techniques and of the newest technology for designing and production of objects.
•  Learn about design, 3D printing, and prototyping.
•  Students are able to experience learn-by-doing philosophy using a broad variety of tools.

Events and Achievements

To update the knowledge of students and provide them the opportunity to acquire innovative ideas of 3D Printing techniques with creativity, a training has been organized in the Lab where students learned practical emphasis of 3D printing for faster prototyping and its application further on their design models. Students got exposure to hands-on experience and designed few models.