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Subject: A small miracle: Real 3D printer!

attileus opened this issue on Mar 18, 2004 · 26 posts
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attileus ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 12:46 PM · edited Fri, 08 November 2024 at 3:10 PM

Attached Link: http://www.zcorp.com

Found a link to a site with printers that can make a physical object from a CAD/DXF file - check out the future! ;-)

drawbridgep ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 1:24 PM

OK, my brain is having a hard time with that. You give the printer a CAD file and get a real model out the other end!? WOW! Don't let the poser crowd no about this, there will be no telling what they'll do with it. ;-) Incredible. Only one step away from Star Trek. :-)

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attileus ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 1:28 PM

Haha, right about the Poser people! :-)

bigbadelf ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 2:20 PM

The models made are very rigid. I don't think they can print with inflatable material. ;o)

FWTempest ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 2:22 PM

ya know?... I've got $32,000 that I've been saving up for nothing in particular... I might just have to get me one of these... yeah, right. ;o)

danamo ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 2:36 PM

Lol@ bigbadelf!

DJB ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 2:58 PM

That's some real magic powder there.

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ajtooley ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 3:16 PM

FW, I don't have $32,000 to spare either (just spent my last $32,000 on Poser hair), but the exciting thing about this is that these things cost $50,000 not too long ago. And ten years ago it cost even more. I could think of a few good --and not pornographic-- uses for such a thing and Poser and Bryce, if it were affordable. Maybe someday soon it will be. But, like inkjets, I bet they own you on the consumables. :)

eelie ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 4:13 PM

Check the post Kylara made a day or so ago and the link to an old foleypro post and his remarks in the more current one. This will be possible within our own little forum one day in the not so distant future. Cool, huh? :o)

Slakker ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 4:35 PM

dude, you could make action figures and sell them for $3.20...at that rate, you'd only have to sell 10,000 of them to break even on the printer...or make some really impressive prototype and sell it to a company for 1,000,000...plus royalties... That thing costs 32 times what my car did.

TheBryster ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 6:01 PM
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You spent $1000 on a car? Mine cost 10 !

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Slakker ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 6:15 PM

$1250, actually, and it was well worth it, she's a beast. 1988 Buick LeSabre with a 3600 series 3.6 litre V6...plus, the hood (or "bonnet" for your crazy foreign folks) opens the exact opposite way that your average car does.

bigbadelf ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 6:42 PM

My god! They've lapsed into speaking gibberish! ;o) Me, who couldn't tell a carburetor from a hole in the ground.

drawbridgep ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 7:16 PM

Attached Link: Yes I am sad enough to put a picture of my car on the net.

My car IS a hole in the ground into which I throw money and watch it disappear. It's a 1.8 litre 4 cyclinder V-dub. Woof!! But remember, although gas is $1.77 in the US, it's more like $8.00 in the UK, so we can't all afford a car that needs filling up every 20 minutes

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pakled ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 7:58 PM

I know what would happen, naked Vickie on a dashboard with a sword..;)

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bigbadelf ( ) posted Thu, 18 March 2004 at 8:26 PM

@pakled - sounds like you're playing Clue. ;o) A whole new world of hood ornaments opens up. Oh no. What horrible plague are we unleashing on the world now? ;o)

gammaRascal ( ) posted Fri, 19 March 2004 at 7:01 AM

Attached Link: http://www.3darttopart.com/index.php

if you havent seen this site, check it out. i think it falls into our price ranges a little easier but based on quotes so no rough estimates :( BUT on the upside, a gallery or works so you can see what they do. theres another company doing this too, same sorta setup but different machinery of course.. i cant find the link though...



attileus ( ) posted Fri, 19 March 2004 at 10:56 AM

Cool, the prices are affordable but can they print a Bryce landscape? :-))

AgentSmith ( ) posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 2:25 AM

From what I have seen, they can "print" anything. There were a few machines doing their thing at Siggraph 2003. Amazing to watch, totally automated after being set up. The Tuperware corporation was using machines to do this very thing 5+ years ago. Although their machine I saw was right out of science fiction, it uses a polymer liquid and lasers to create 3D forms. Not sure if they use it anymore, it was pretty slow. *I'll be interested in seeing what is at this Siggraph 2004... AS

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AgentSmith ( ) posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 2:26 AM

Tuperware = Tupperware.

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AgentSmith ( ) posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 2:34 AM

Here's the company Tupperware used to do their mold-making; http://www.3dsystems.com And, the machine that now exsists to do this 3D Printing, they call it Multi-Jet Modeling in Acrylic Photopolymer; http://www.3dsystems.com/products/datafiles/invision/datasheets/Datasheet-InVision_printer-US_English-Feb04.pdf

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Alan-ASD ( ) posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 4:47 AM

You guys should definitely check out the following links. :)

toybuilders.com
3darttopart.com
bnt4cncrp.com

It's too late... Some in the Poser community have already heard about 3D printing and even used it.

Some of the most popular methods of 3D printing are... Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Layer Object Manufacturing (LOM), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), and 3 Dimensional Printing (3DP).

Stereolithography is the most common method for using lasers to solidify a part out of a liquid bath.

Here's a link to another 3D printer for you if you have 23k.
dimensionprinting.com

Alan-ASD ( ) posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 4:51 AM

Ooops... Sorry Twisted Symmetry. I missed the fact that you already listed a link to 3DArttoPart.com.

gammaRascal ( ) posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 6:06 AM

np, toybuilder was the second one i couldnt remember. looks like the list is growing though.



attileus ( ) posted Sun, 21 March 2004 at 11:39 AM

Hm, it seems that it's not a miracle after all; I'll be back with links to sites with ST-Replicator...:-))

gammaRascal ( ) posted Wed, 31 March 2004 at 4:25 PM

Attached Link: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/inside/computer_resources/manual/cadcam/3d_print.htm#design

check this out! there is even a quote by volume.. not sure if they would deal with the gp though...



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