3D Printing in action by 3D Creation Lab in Bristol, UK
This video is a demonstration of our Objet 3D printer and shows the level of detail that can be achieved with this type of rapid prototyping machine.
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so do you see future models producing items out of anything other than resin for example metal ?
don’t you use a shield to protect yourself from the UV?
How much of itself a Reprap machine replicates depends on how you count, viz, volume, mass, cost or whatever. They typically print about 1.1 kg of plastic parts. The steel that the parts connect weighs many times that.
The positioning accuracy is typically about 0.1 mm while the extruder orifice is typically 0.5 mm. I’m using a Rapman 3 variation on the Darwin design with a 0.3 mm orifice to get me some pretty fine detail work.
“Have you seen the homebrew project with the 3d printer that can replicate itself?”
that’s the stuff. i first saw these types of printers at a London show in 2001, they were loaded with plastics and metals and had blades and cutting instruments mounted and housed in a perspex display; it looked great watching them whittle away to produce the designs also loaded into them.
Hi,
It isnt Solidworks I am afraid, it is a specialist piece of software for viewing and fixing STL files which is the format that gets sent to the printer. Solidworks is very good at producing this file format though.
That looks like solidworks…Do you send the file in .sldprt format to the printer? whats the biggest part you can make?
Hi Armyvisual,
Thanks for the comments. I have seen the Reprap project, but I think it only replicates about 50% of itself, so not quite self replication yet! The DPi on the machine works much the same way as a normal printer and is 600 x 600 DPi in the X & Y and 1600 DPi in the Z. None of these are controllable though.
Hey this is a very nice machine! I do digital printing, and have always been intrigued by the 3d printers in the showrooms while looking at new printers.
Have you seen the homebrew project with the 3d printer that can replicate itself? It comes with the presets to ‘build’ a new machine, with the machine. I think you only need to provide some electrical components. Really awesome stuff guys.
How exactly would resolution work on this? Can you control the ‘resen’ ‘DPI’ if you will?
oh you have the same screen I have
Are there any “medical” ones?
This particular machine uses a UV curable resin in liquid form, but there are machines that use powder. “they grow” is a good description
you put material in it (in dust form) and it builds models layer by layer (they “grow”)
Ok, i’m lost, how does this work?