Designing a face shield frame in PTC Creo and printing it in a 3D printer

Abstract

Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is a transmissible disease that was recently discovered. The infection is mainly transmitted through droplets produced by an infected person coughing, sneezing, or breathing. These droplets are too heavy to hold the air and fall rapidly on floors or surfaces. When you come into contact with people who have a coronavirus or touch a contaminated surface, you can become infected by the virus after touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. The face shield is generallyintended to provide protect from droplets produced by the infected person. A large number of healthcare workers were infected atthe start of the pandemic was due to a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). How all of a sudden hospitals can be obtained protective equipment's, ventilators and some other spare parts needed. Shortage of medical and personal protective equipment has affected the ability of many countries to respond to the pandemic. Three-dimensional printing (3DP) is well suited to address this shortage, and these components can be printed effectively using 3D Printers.Personal protective equipment (PPE) is in short supply during the coronavirus pandemic. Health care workers should use a face shield to protect their faces from droplets. The current work aims to design a face shield mask frame in PTC Creo as per requirement and print it in a 3D printer machine. The process followed to print the model is FDM technology and PLA (polylactic acid) material has been used to print the frame. The filament material (PLA) is deposited layer by layer on a build platform by heating it to its melting point. The combination of many layers would give a final 3D model.