3D printing

[Smokin]

If this is legit, It's awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw

For the life of me I can't see how it's possible.

[bogan]

That's awesome! Must have some very accurate printing capability to ensure the parts don't bond to each other while printing. It appears they touched up the design model a bit after scanning to ensure the moving parts would work, which makes sense, scan tool is also pretty wicked though.

[ellipsis]

...woohoo...beam me up scotty...

[jim.cox]

check out

ponoko.co.nz

they offer a 3d printing service right here and now

[imdying]

Or buy your own! http://www.makerbot.com/

[DrunkenMistake]

Thats cool,
Iv seen and herd of Rapid prototyping but never 3d printing haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwQ5HA8sE-k

[ellipsis]

...wonder how they would go on my top set of teeth...only wear them for family photo's...not allowed in the frame if i dont have them in...last lot got a bit smashed when i whacked them off my verandah with a golf club...

[Ronin]

The bit they didn't show you is the work on the cad program after scanning to define the moving parts. Once you kn ow about that then it makes more sense.

[Brian d marge]

Welcome to my world

IF you can draw a water tight 3d drawing , ans save it as an STL file then a company called shapeways will print it out ( MUCH CHEAPER than NZ , ,,unless they changed?)

My usual work path is..Sketch, CAD ,,finite analysis...( balsa mock up or cardboard as a double double check ..) ..Shapeways. Emachine ( online machining place ) or NZ machine shop ...

The trick is getting a non manifold drawing ,,SO when drawing the parts you Must bear in mind the printer , thats why a lot of blender drawings ( 3d cgi) dont want to print

Why do I go to all this fannying about, because you can get it right first time , and thinking doesn't cost money!

I do recommend people try , ANYTHING that you can think off you can make ....ANYTHING

Stephen

oh and you can have fun with CGI ......

[Kickaha]

check out

ponoko.co.nz

they offer a 3d printing service right here and now

I should have got them to print me out some pistons

[Brian d marge]

I should have got them to print me out some pistons

I can print in Stainless steel and Aluminum ... and sand .....

Stephen

[Ocean1]

Some Volvo water pumps are made like that, but in steel. The impellor is printed inside the housing, there’s no way to assemble it or to get it out after it’s built. Materials are still limited to starch based plastics, special epoxies and certain tool steels.

Surgical titanium can be printed using intersecting magnetron beams. Images from a MRI can be imported into a CAD system and prosthesis and jigs can be accurately printed before the patient ever sees a scalpel. The savings are just huge.

The technology is actually well over a decade old, it’ll be another before it’s main stream.

[Matt Bleck]

I thought I saw on the news a little while back that their not far away from printing body organ's.....

[Maha]

I thought I saw on the news a little while back that their not far away from printing body organ's.....

Did the article say anything about being able to upsize things?
Just asking..........for a friend

[Ocean1]

I thought I saw on the news a little while back that their not far away from printing body organ's.....

Initially the method is to print an organ-shaped scaffold on which specially tailored cells grow. It'll be a while before you can make complete organs , but that "while" is more or less the lead time for an imortal body. Then you just need to work out how to keep "you".