Digital Fabrication Lab

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Explore. Experiment. Create.

Who We Are

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Our Digital Fabrication Lab is a small-scale, department funded lab with the mission of serving our students and interdisciplinary curriculum offered within the Art & Art History Department. It is a place for students to bring their vision to life in a safe, industry-standard laboratory. In order to provide the best experience possible for our students, access to the woodshop and Digital Fabrication Equipment is limited to students enrolled in the Department of Art and Art History.

The Woodshop

The woodshop is open to all students enrolled in the Department of Art and Art History who have completed ART170. Contained within the shop are a variety of traditional woodworking tools as well as our two gantry router CNC machines.

Equipment & Hours

Equipment Information

3-Axis CNC Router

The K2 and Forest Scientific are both large format computer numerical controlled (CNC) router tables capable of milling complex 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes in a variety of materials.

3D Printers and Scanners

We have 8 3D printers available for our students; 7 FDM (fused deposition modeling) printers and 1 SLA (stereolithography apparatus) resin printer. Our 3d scanner allows users to digitize real world objects to an accuracy of 0.005 of an inch.

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Hours & Access

  • Sunday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m
  • Room number: J100A

Digital Fabrication Lab Contact

Cecelia Kreider

  • Woodshop Supervisor and Fabrications Coordinator

Equipment Information

Laser and High Force (vinyl) Cutters

We have two laser cutter/engravers, a Universal with a 60-Watt laser and an Epilog with a 120-Watt laser. The laser follows a vector path to engrave or cut through material. The Klic-N-Kut Maxx High Force Cutter is a top-of-the line digital die cutter with 950g of cutting force and up to 600mm/sec cutting speed that can cut a variety of materials.