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COVID-19 Healthcare Supply-Boosting Efforts: 3D CAD and How to Help

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Have skills and itching to make a difference with the shortages in coronavirus-related supplies? There are lots of virtual communities organizing and open-source designs being made available. Investigate the list below to find a way to put your vital CAD-modeling, 3D-printing, nunchuck skills, and other talents to use! (OK, maybe not the last one.) And if you have any to add, please comment below.

Disclaimer: we’re not making any claims of the effectiveness or safety of any of the work these organizations are doing. Use the info at these links at your own discretion and risk!

OSCMS: Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies

When I first asked my network about how we could help with our bow-hunting, I mean, engineering skills, I was pointed to this international Facebook group:

Open Source Covid19 Medical Supplies
1. Read: Our Intent, Needs, and Your Role (Google Doc)
2. Read: Careables.com Corona Care Maker Initiative (Google Doc)

Engineers Assemble

You can add to or download from this open-source library of ventilator CAD files. There’s also a section for respirator masks:

Engineers Assemble

Isinnova Srl

Here you can download the 3D printing files for connectors you can use to help convert a snorkeling mask into an emergency ventilator mask:

Easy COVID 19

This hacked snorkel mask is shown on Isinnova’s page for COVID19 engineering.

Dassault Systèmes – Open COVID-19 Community

Dassault has a community on its 3DExperience platform with lots of experts from different fields and countries to qualify ideas that emerge. You can find more information here:

Open COVID-19

Props to Onshape

John “Johnny Mac” McEleney of Onshape shared the next two links with us:

Durable PPE Project 2020

The proposal found in this link is for figuring out how to produce more durable, makeshift filtering masks. This idea adapts scuba masks with 3D-printed connectors and filter materials commonly used elsewhere in hospitals:

Durable PPE Project 2020

OpenLung BVM Ventilator

This design is in progress and the aim is to use an already available “bag valve mask” (used in CPR) to hack a quick, low-resource ventilator:

OpenLung BVM Ventilator

Concept illustration pulled from OpenLung project on GitLab March 26, 2020.

Formlabs

Formlabs is matching up Formlabs customers willing to do 3D printing with those in the healthcare community in need of supplies. You can find out more at the link below and also sign up to be a volunteer.

Formlabs COVID-19 Response

Copper 3D NanoHack

Copper 3D is working out a 3D-printable mask design called “NanoHack” here:

Hack The Pandemic

Copper 3D’s NanoHack printable mask design.

Prusa Printers – Medical Shields

These guys give warnings about when creating a 3D printed mask design, but face shields are a different story. Prusa Printers is working on finalizing their 3D-printed shield design, now in its 2nd revision and being field-tested. You can learn more about here:

Prusa Medical Shields

RepRap LTD

You can view an open-source oxygen concentrator design that MacGyver would be proud of here:

Open Source Oxygen Concentrator

Here’s a schematic for an open-source oxygen concentrator idea you can find at RepRap LTD.

3D HUBS COVID-19 Fund

3D HUBS is organizing a fund to support projects looking to manufacture critical equipment at scale. You can donate or apply for funding through this link:

COVID-19 Fund

Coronavirus Tech Handbook

This open-source document covers a lot of areas including a section on “Engineering” and you can add to it, yourself. Sometimes this link is difficult to open due to high traffic. If that happens, you can try again at an hour more likely to be off-peak.

Coronavirus Tech Handbook

Genesis Plastics Technologies

Genesis Plastics Technologies, based out of Greeley, Colorado, announced they are also producing large quantities of face shields. They whipped up a design on the fly with a 3D-printed component to help in-state medical professionals facing shortages.

Contact Genesis Plastics

Origin

At the time of publishing, the personal protection equipment (PPE) designs that Origin is working on were still under development. We’re told they’ll be made open-source once they’re good to go.

Contact Origin

HP COVID-19 Prevention Methods

Hewlett-Packard has free, 3D printable design files right now for respirators, face shields, hands-free door openers, and mask adjusters (to make them more comfortable for long periods of wear). You can also submit your own designs to them. Find out more at this link:

HP COVID-19 Prevention Methods

Vivek Krishnamurthy of HP also shared the digital manufacturers below who are “waiting and able to help hospitals and medical professionals alike in need of spare parts.”

Arizona:
Athena 3D Manufacturing
Paradigm Manufacturing

California:
FORECAST 3D
GoProto, Inc.
FATHOM
Dinsmore Inc.

Colorado:
Avid Product Development

Illinois:
Re3dTech
Custom Color 3D Printing
Fast Radius, Inc.

Idaho:
JawsTec

Massachusetts:
Empire Group

Michigan:
Forerunner 3D Printing
Extol, Inc.
Linear AMS

Minnesota:
DI Labs

New Jersey:
SICAM Corporation

North Carolina:
Additive America

Ohio:
Aerosport Additive

Pennsylvania:
ProtoCAM

Washington:
RapidMade, Inc.
Jabil

Wisconsin:
Midwest Prototyping

Contests/Challenges CoVent-19 Challenge

This challenge is “An Open Innovation Effort to Design a Rapidly Deployable Mechanical Ventilator“. There are a bunch of MD’s on their team, so that’s a great sign. You can sign-up on this page to learn more:

Covent Challenge

Designer Contest: Everyday Necessities

Prusa Printers is holding a contest in addition to its own development work. This one is focused not on medical supplies, but on the everyday things we all might run out of in this (hopefully) temporary chaos:

Everyday Necessities

Other Lists

Dragon Innovation published a list of open projects and resources:

COVID-19 Open Source Projects

A list of open-source projects can be found at Wikifactory:

Wikifactory COVID-19 Projects (Project Template)

Do You Know of Others?

We’ll be updating this list as we are sent them or hear of others. If you have a project or know of one, please tell us in the comments or contact us with more information. Thank you!

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