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im trying to find more info about a 3D laser engraver?
A few weeks ago I took my family to Alton Towers.
During our visit we came across an amazing souvenir. This was a block of clear glass measuring roughy 50mm x 50mm x 100mm. My children were sat down in front of a laser scanner which produced a 3 dimensional computer model of their heads. These models were then engraved into the clear glass block to produce a monochrome 3 dimensional image of the two of them.
I thought the whole process was amazing, and this was a fantastic souvenir of our holiday. Much better than a photograph or camcorder film. We now have a lovely ornament which is displayed in the house. The total cost to have this done (while we waited) was 34 pounds
Does any one know any more about these systems?
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Phil
I think that the Roland Metaza (hope I’ve spelled it correctly) does this. It was on show at Sign UK and produced some impressive results.
Dawn
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hi phil
great idea eh..i read about it somewhere a will back..give me a few minutes and i’ll see if its in my fav folder 😛
nik
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hm. what was used to scan the heads in?
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hi phil 😀
real sorry…looked through all faves this afternoon..but nope it’s gone 😀 sorry….but you did me a favour got the folder cleaned out 😛 i’m sure i posted something on here a long time ago.. 😕 i have even tried google, but nothing yet..will keep you posted 😀
nik
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I’m sorry you didn’t find what you were looking for Nik – but thanks for taking the time to try and find it anway. 😀
Dave – I think it was a laser that was used to scan their images in.
For any one that’s interested, I did a search and found an example of this type of thing
http://www.laserfoxarts.com/product/custom-portrait-crystal/index.htm -
those look cracking phill. real smart. im not clued up in any way about lasers but im sure rodney will shed some light if he clocks this post. hope so as ide like to know now too :lol1:
Big-G and i came across a laser being demoed at sign uk. blistering speed and so accurate it was frightening. think we both were amazed at it.. 😮
dave, is it not the software that determines the depth mate?
again im not clued-up but i thought you select the max depth for the engravig and the software determines the rest of it with light+dark areas?
i could be coletely wrong by the way :lol1: -
Phil & everyone
This system is offered by a guy on our Industrial Estate. He has a 3D scanner of some sort and then Laser Etched into an acrylic type block. I will try to find more info out an post something up.
Tony
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Thereis a guy in Milton Keynes shopping centre that does it, the equipment cant be that large cos he works out of a kiosk in the mall.
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i did google the Roland Metaza laser thingy and saw it was an etcher type thing, as Rob says it seems to be light vs dark methods which is said on the Roland site.
I guess I was thinking of the Star Trek replicators. :lol1:
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Just to clarify, I don’t think the engraver Phil has seen is the Metazzo. We have just taken delivery of a Roland Metazzo, it “Prints” onto FLAT Metal surfaces. It prints via a dot matrix type head which impacts the surface. I think the ‘engraver’ Phil has seen is a 3 dimensional system. The effect is like a model submerged into a perspex block. As I said in my earlier post a chap runs this kind of business near me, and I will try to post some info.
Tony
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that’s the one phil.. 😛
really amazing how it’s done 😀
look forward to the info tony 😛
nik
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Just re-read the posts and missed the link Phil put up. They are exactly the thing the guy near me makes.
The Metazzo is different and I will let you all know how we get on with it if you’re interested.
Tony
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The lasers that do that use 2 beams and they concentrate the focal points inside the glass and actually fracture it with thermal shock. Very expensive system if you want to do these fast , the chinese pump these things out in the billions. Imho a laser like that is a little useless as these lasers do very little else. Impressive paperweights and trophys etc , but a little faddish and not sustainable . It’s a 3d scanner that takes the “pic”.
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