3D Printer

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

[K74T]

Really cool

[rossi]

Oh gawww!! Wait till de guntas start to print guns!

[VexXx Dogg]

WOW

[bonzo.specb]

Awesome !

[biggreen]

wow!! very cool..

[eViLwOn]

3D Phoqin' Awesome!!!

[eurogirl]

utt have 2 of those .. they use it for final projects ..

[Stephon.]

Iight I going and buy one of these. Somebody kidnap gaga for meh dey.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

utt have 2 of those .. they use it for final projects ..

they do static objects or do the ones UTT has do moving parts as well?

[Bezman]

old thing man duane


EyeScreamAnimation has had one for over 5 years, theirs uses plastic and wax, prints in plastic, melts away the wax, they can make moving complex parts as well, the used it for 3d models for buildings etc..

[eurogirl]

utt have 2 of those .. they use it for final projects ..

they do static objects or do the ones UTT has do moving parts as well?

moving parts as well ..

[W2J]

utt have 2 of those .. they use it for final projects ..

they do static objects or do the ones UTT has do moving parts as well?

moving parts as well ..

Imagine if this fall into the wrong hands the kind of stuff that could be replicated

[bushwakka]

yea, these things have been around awhile, and prices have dropped recently to make them "affordable" for home users as well

take a look

http://www.pcworld.com/article/212440/t ... ortly.html

[R. Mutt]

old thing man duane


EyeScreamAnimation has had one for over 5 years, theirs uses plastic and wax, prints in plastic, melts away the wax, they can make moving complex parts as well, the used it for 3d models for buildings etc..

You beat me to it. Brent has had one a while now...I remember Jamie telling me about it when he used to work there.

[Michael Knight...]

So......if I scan a Frontier with........doh bother..

[bushwakka]

^^now u kno why it had so much b14 on de road

[~Vēġó~]

so they could actually make the velociraptor voice box den....

[turbohead]

duane take a 2 days for that repost there....ban-o-rama2000

[Trini Hookah]

All this and they couldn't make BumbleBee talk again?

[rossi]

All this and they couldn't make BumbleBee talk again?

Tell mih dis fcukin ting nah!

[TK!]

i still cyah believe it. amazing.
they aint pull any real torque on the nut tho..

[skylinechild]

guys what would an ordinary letter or pdf document look like printed on this type of printer....???

hmmmmm............

[rossi]

So wait....you could print out a punanz and ah pair of titties then? From any magazine?

[Trini Hookah]

^ Magazine is printed in 2D, you'd have to scan the woman to get the print you desire.

[TK!]

imagine when a woman asks to take your pic what she tinkin

[S_2NR]

really kool!

when the man says at the end:
"so if you lose your tool in space, u can print a another one" made me laugh

[bassotronics]

really impressive!

[Halfbreed07]

this technology has been out a while now
these fellas did a demo for us way back in 2002 when they printed a crescent wrench for us

http://eyescreamanimation.com/index.php

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ now the crescent wrench can be made out of metal and be an actual heavy duty tool!!!

http://gizmodo.com/5841449/why-yes-maam ... a-computer



Seen above are two parts. The simpler one was created using conventional manufacturing techniques. The other more complex part, also made of metal was printed on a 3D printer at Airbus.

But 3D printing is nothing new, right? Well, yes, if we're talking plastic or resin parts that don't require the kinds of heavy stresses one might associate with, I dunno, keeping hundreds of tons of metals flying through the air.

Using an special additive layer manufacturing machine (aka the aforementioned 3D printer), they are able to create "intricate forms out of high-grade metal," reports the MIT Technology Review, which to me and you means "oh by the way, Airbus has actually already installed these 3D-printed parts on their massive Airbus A380 airliners.

And since this is a computer-assisted 3D printing press we're talking about, it would be remiss to not mention that they are stronger, lighter and more superior than anything we humans could create by hand or with our now outdated, traditional manufacturing processes:

The printers use software that works out where the parts need to bear loads and places material just in those areas, halving the weight of the complete part without sacrificing strength. That saves energy, metal, and money. The complex, curving forms that result couldn't be cast in a mold or carved out of a larger block even with the most advanced computer-controlled tools, but they can be printed in a succession of layers tens of micrometers thick.