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Video: 3D Printing of solid products, any views?
Dave Rowland posted this elsewhere so thought ide post here.
great machine and definitely a glimpse into the future…however, i couldnt help bit think ide seen very similar some years back by Graphtec GB. so did a quick search and found I was correct.
story here from 2005
pdf with pictures etc HEREmy guess is its been shelved as ive not heard anymore but at £15,000 it was not over priced for something so new…
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I remember watching a documentry on online sales from the likes of Amazon. who spoke about the likes of 3D printers becoming a household item in years to come.
The idea was you would go into their on-line store and buy, lets say a toy, you purchased a time expiring "file download". hit print and your desk top printer made the toy there and then.
pretty amazing stuff… only a matter of time before it becomes reality.
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This is what I was on about when I posted here:-
http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … sc&start=0I remember seeing a TV program where there was talk that a manned mission to Mars would take a 3d printer with them to use to manufacture spare parts for the spacecraft should anything break down. A bit fanciful I know – but demonstrates the potential for a printer that can make almost anything in plastic. It doesn’t have to be just plastic though, you can print 3d wax models that can be used to produce moulds for casting the object in metal or even sintered glass.
My daughter uses this site to print 3d models of jewellery that she has been creating as part of her course at Dundee University
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its something i have always wanted to learn but never seem to find the time, but ide really like to know more on it. when we bought our axyz router over ten years ago now, it was to mainly cut flat cut lettering. but also to move into the 3d milling side of routering once we found our feet. i think at the time the software AXYZ on show was called Type 3. what it did was amazing back then… you scanned in a flat photo and after altering the settings to suit your material, route a 3 dimensional face, sheild, building. (obviously more to it than just that) but that was the basic concept and the results were amazing.
made your mind spin with possibilities. but like many things, we just didn’t have the time to set aside learning and marketing something so new. -
looks like airbus have been using 3d printing on structural parts on the A380
http://gizmodo.com/5841449/why-yes-maam … a-computer
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Just edit, this technology isn’t new, the video seems slightly fabricated (excuse the pun) and Shane Drew takes the credit for the find.
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i wasnt aware the video might be iffy dave, if that’s what you mean mate. but the technology by graphtec isnt. based on same thing really is it not?
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only in the sense of filming, i am certain this is possible
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yeah its definitely possible mate…
Graphtec I’m sure had a video too, which is what i was trying to find. also, as i said, i watched a documentary on it…
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At last years (2010) Edinburgh College of Art Grad show there was a girl who’d used a 3D printer to make her final jewelery designs. The designs were based on shells iirc & made really good use of the printing capabilities.
One of the real beauties of the system (HP I’ve played with) is that it can create the hidden internals as well as the complex outer shapes. The guy that took me through it pulled in a complex internal shell structure & printed it perfectly….in bright pink.
Reckon there are loads of possibilities in all sorts of areas but for a sign application surely a pretty niche market?
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