With thousands of parts produced every quarter, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) automated support removal using the PostProcess BASE™ and DEMI 830™ solutions to improve efficiency, increase project capacity, and provide students with hands-on experience using industry-standard technologies.
About SCAD
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private, nonprofit university focused on preparing students for creative careers. Additive manufacturing is integrated across more than 40 academic programs, providing students with access to real-world manufacturing technologies and workflows. The university operates twelve Stratasys FDM printers and three Stratasys PolyJet printers, producing approximately 2,000–2,500 parts each quarter.
SCAD's additive manufacturing lab supports hundreds of students each quarter within an accelerated 10-week academic calendar. Manual support removal consumed valuable time, created workflow bottlenecks, and limited the number of projects the lab could support. Staff and students spent time on labor-intensive post-processing rather than design, iteration, and skill development.
To improve both efficiency and education outcomes, SCAD integrated the PostProcess BASE FDM Support Removal Solution and DEMI 830 PolyJet Support Removal Solution into its additive manufacturing lab. Students now gain experience with the same automated post-processing technologies used in professional manufacturing environments.
By automating post-processing, SCAD created a more efficient additive manufacturing lab that gives students more time to focus on design, creativity, and hands-on engineering experiences while allowing staff to support additional projects throughout each academic quarter.
