Hi Jim, interesting vid.
In your opinion, what does the future hold for 3D printing and what do you think the timescale will be? Will they cease to be specialist only or a curio for tech heads and become a commonplace in people's homes soon? Or will I be popping to the local DIY store to have summat printed?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 19 Apr 2018, 18:31,
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I don't think they will be in every home but.......
do think there will be more 3D print bureaux which will print stuff for you - like there were fax bureaux (remember them?) on every high street.
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Interesting.
I'm thinking of getting a wimpy lulzbot or something. But to be talking about manufacturing parts at a magnitude beyond what we're doing now it's pretty cool. Also nice seeing an actual face from someone here.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Thu 19 Apr 2018, 19:41,
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Interesting.
What's the process there?
Looks like a bed of powder getting fused on each pass.
Looks expensive, will stick with my 2 frankstein i3 clones and my smelly bastard d7.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 19 Apr 2018, 19:45,
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That sounds like laser sintering
But the name "Multi jet" is a bit misleading if that's the case. These guys do an impressive range that aren't silly money for the performance, but not something you'd buy to have a play with unless you have a few grand lying around doing nothing!
formlabs.com
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 19 Apr 2018, 21:47,
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It's an infra-red based system
The slice you want to fuse is printed in an infra-red absorbing 'ink' on each pass which is heated by the high-intensity lamps fore and aft of the printing head. So, if you have a load of separate parts in the same layer they're all done at the same time on each pass - hence the speed.
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Depends what you call expensive
£300k gets you the whole kit - bargain!
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But why aren't you singing?!
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 19 Apr 2018, 21:40,
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