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SteveoBC

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9th Mar 13 at 11:00

Just watched an article on 3D printing on break (also scroll down for a couple of nice pics of products)

Thought initially this was a bit of a novelty but seemed theres gonna be a shit load of future uses (print organs for transplants i found fascinating)

Plus no more not being able to not source old vaux parts...print them!

http://www.break.com/article/we-told-you-3d-printing-would-kick-ass-2422284/

John

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9th Mar 13 at 11:04

It's been the future for a while now.

Ian

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9th Mar 13 at 11:15

Its not quite a free lunch, you're currently limited to what materials you can use, plus no one mentioned in the video but one-offs are very expensive not only in the design but also the cost of the raw materials.

Its another route in to manufacture for things like old parts, the technology is there for people to create old parts now, they can injection mould plastic or press metal, but the cost to produce is a factor on those too.

2D hasn't overtaken magazine sales yet and I have a similar position on 3D. No doubt technology will get there but if I want a painting to hang on the wall, I still need to go buy a painting.

3CorsaMeal

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9th Mar 13 at 11:32

Anyone seen the 3d pen. Forgot to look it up. Something like doodle pen. You can draw in 3d basically. Weird looking like molten plastic string

John

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9th Mar 13 at 11:33

Yes, uses the same sort of extruder as the 3d printers use, just in a pen.

3CorsaMeal

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9th Mar 13 at 11:34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RyHu1nnJAo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Tomnova16

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9th Mar 13 at 11:37

jay leno has had one to make old car parts for a few years now

http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
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3CorsaMeal

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9th Mar 13 at 11:39

Watched about Jay Leno thing and it ended up being quite impressive but not as great as I thought. More of a prototype part maker. Then someone has to use the model and taken measurements off it and then make the real parts.

Unless your making some shitty plastic part

John

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9th Mar 13 at 11:40

You can 3D print metals if you are either NASA, an aeroplane manufacturer, or have lots of money.

Carl

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9th Mar 13 at 11:42

it'll be the future of drug production.

John

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9th Mar 13 at 11:45

I like to think of it as the first step towards Star Trek style replicators. As the resolution gets higher and you can easily print with multiple materials, that's basically what it will be.

Ben G

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9th Mar 13 at 11:48

i have absolutely no idea how this works.

John

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9th Mar 13 at 11:49

The most common of the current crop just melt a plastic wire, just like a hot glue gun.

There are other methods that use light to cure a layer of resin at a time, and similar methods for metal.

Steve

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9th Mar 13 at 11:52

all sorts of copyright issues with this aswell, some guy got done because he was 3d printing his own warhammer models and they got the pissy about it

3CorsaMeal

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9th Mar 13 at 11:54

Its a bit like taking every photo from an mri scan and cutting them out and sticking them all together except in molten plastic

3CorsaMeal

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9th Mar 13 at 11:55

quote:
Originally posted by Steve
all sorts of copyright issues with this aswell, some guy got done because he was 3d printing his own warhammer models and they got the pissy about it

Did they make him crash his printer into a tree?

Ben G

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9th Mar 13 at 11:56

see, in my head, i had a vision where we could print off a big mac meal or a meatball sub.

knowing that it's plastic is a bit of a letdown.

Steve

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9th Mar 13 at 11:58

Are you taking the absolute Schmeichel?

3CorsaMeal

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9th Mar 13 at 12:02

My sister had these little plastic beads with holes in yhst you stuck to a board and then ironed to melt them altogether. And this was in the 80s ffs.

Brett

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9th Mar 13 at 16:37

TPB already have a catagory for 3D models. Can print gun parts and all sorts.

https://www.piratereverse.info/browse/605/0/7

[Edited on 09-03-2013 by Brett]

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9th Mar 13 at 18:57

quote:
Originally posted by John
You can 3D print metals if you are either NASA, an aeroplane manufacturer, or have lots of money.

Laser sintering isn't that bad. A guy at my uni had quite a few turbine impellers done for a less than eye watering amount. It's certainly more expensive than the plastic., resin or powder RP methods, but it's not so expensive it's exclusively for NASA e.t.c.

mwg

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9th Mar 13 at 19:05

quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RyHu1nnJAo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

That looks shit

mwg

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9th Mar 13 at 19:06

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
see, in my head, i had a vision where we could print off a big mac meal or a meatball sub.

knowing that it's plastic is a bit of a letdown.

This is what's wrong with this country, first thoughts are about printing wanky fast food

Jambo

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9th Mar 13 at 19:18

quote:
Originally posted by John
The most common of the current crop just melt a plastic wire, just like a hot glue gun.

There are other methods that use light to cure a layer of resin at a time, and similar methods for metal.

Ford had one of these on their stand in Geneva was really impressive.

Bart

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9th Mar 13 at 19:25

I ordered a 3d printed GoPro mount for my scuba diving mask this week, looking forward to getting it shortly.

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