Amazing printer!!!

[95DelSlo]

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

[UNDRCVRFOCUS]

Yeah I've seen 3D printers in person before, pretty awesome technology.

[95DelSlo]

where at? i could see them making the part but how the f**k does it have all the parts be able to move like it does? is it sorta like the technology used to make the laser eched images in the glass cubes and stuff?

[domdaaxe58]

That's awesome

[Scorched_Earth]

Yeah I've seen 3D printers in person before, pretty awesome technology.

Same here

where at? i could see them making the part but how the f**k does it have all the parts be able to move like it does? is it sorta like the technology used to make the laser eched images in the glass cubes and stuff?

The part or parts in this case are made by layering the material. So as each layer is applied it isn't connected to the part next to it.

Think about it this way. Cut that wrench into a million layers, as it is being cut the parts that move aren't touching each other. If that makes it clear as mud. :LOL:

[sr20ser]

The Tech Center in Mossville has a couple of them in TC-K. Pretty much, if you see the words, "Rapid Prototyping", the company has one.

Napalm is correct; layer after layer is built up. It is no different than slicing an actual wrench apart, thin layers at a time.

The laser etching cube shit is all about focal length of the beam.

[Samickguy15]

People were circulating this around work...Even folks who had worked at the tech center. This stuff has been around for years! It is becoming affordable even for the average Joe. For a couple grand you can be RP'ing your own stuff.

[UNDRCVRFOCUS]

The part or parts in this case are made by layering the material. So as each layer is applied it isn't connected to the part next to it.

Think about it this way. Cut that wrench into a million layers, as it is being cut the parts that move aren't touching each other. If that makes it clear as mud. :LOL:

Exactly! And the machines I've seen, fill in the areas where no material is needed with some sort of dissolvable material. In this video, the filler seemed to be a sort of sand like substance. I hadn't seen that yet.

That's how they make those asemblies like that. Like the one with all the gears...it is printed already assembled. The air in between all the parts is substituted with a material that can be dissolved (or blown away, in this video's case) when printing is completed.

There just has to be something there for support during the printing process so all the parts are printed with the proper spacing/tolerance, and not directly touching each other.