| Author | Message | ||
     Americanmadexb |
This is pretty cool. | ||
| Froggy |
One of my friends has been egging me to get one for a few years now so he can make Warhammer 40k models. | ||
| Barker |
A fellow Badwebber showed me one that he works on earlier this year. Really cool rig. Powder is not cheap. Harley has had one for years, you can see parts it has made in the HD museum on the prototype bikes. | ||
| Americanmadexb |
Ya know what, now that i think about it i did see one at HD museum.. I know this is kinda old news, but it's some cool stuff. Jimmy Fallon had a guy on a month or so ago with a MUCH smaller scale that could do just about anything 3D except moving parts. I think it was only about $1200 too. Not bad to get into some kinda business. | ||
| Barker |
IIRC a 5 gallon bucket of the powder is somewhere around $1500. | ||
| Toona |
Temporary thread hijack... I've got some parts that need 3D scanned, anyone have a lead? I called 2 businesses today to get quotes... back to your regularly scheduled discussion, thanks. Those printers are cool, but I couldn't use one enough to justify the cost. | ||
| Gunut75 |
Yes, they are cool. Imagine being able to "print" a moving multiple part prototype in one operation. At $1500 per 5 gallon bucket it's a steal. Lets say you had a part like a shifter to produce. 4 operations machining or 1 operation in the printer........... If I had the loot, I would buy one of those machines in a heartbeat!!! | ||
| Gunut75 |
Toona: What do you mean 3D scanned? I know people with coordinate measuring machines that function in 3 axis. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
How the hell does it scan the internal blind spots and come out of the printer as a working/movable piece? | ||
| Toona |
Gunut75: just like in the video of the guy scanning the wrench, I have a few original grille parts that I need a STEP/IGES file to reproduce them on my HAAS VF4 Small piece: 19" x 4" x 2.5" Big piece: 36" x 5" x 4" They are pretty detailed pieces, so I'm thinking that laser scanning them would be the easiest way. I'm not saying they can't be done on a CMM, I know what one is, but I haven't seen one work to know how detailed they can scan. Shoot me a PM and I can email pics of both parts. Thanks! | ||
| Slaughter |
Most of these type of direct manufacturing machines use STL files and their proprietary software slices and programs the machine paths/feeds/speeds. (as can the Zcorp machines) You are very limited on mechanical properties when finished. Good for 3D visualization, kinematic models, fixtures - stuff like that. Sintered powder never quite has the properties of the parent plastic material the powder is made from. There ARE some systems which use electron beam to fuse metals - but they are very coarse. The one thing not shown in the video is the editing of the solid volume to develop the interior geometries. | ||
| Sleez |
heard about one last week that makes chocolate parts!! | ||
| Krassh |
Make your own 3D printer. http://homemade3dprinter.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Notpurples2 |
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| Luge |
zCorp 3Dprinting is the cheapest solution of generating parts out of 3D CAD models. Yes, powder and binder fluid is ugly cost intensive, but compared to sintering directly in plastic oder metal it is cheap. zprinted models can be hardened by resin or glue. Durability is a little less than manually laminated resin parts without glass or carbon fibers. All models can be used for metal sand casting. Or can be vacuum formed by silicon tools. i started printing parts 2 years ago on my own zPrinter and printed around 200 parts. non of them work directly on my Buell. Actually i drive a project of a ultra short back end and a clipon mono race seat for my XB 12S. But generating 3D files cost hours and hours. |
