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The Future of MFG is Now [Crab Fab...rication]
Dynagrip
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This is a thread to discuss all things additive manufacturing and industry 4.0. What additive technologies make you feel funny? Tried, true, and versatile FDM? SLA resin printers? Direct Metal Laser Sintering? What's your favorite engineering polymer?
Let us begin making stuff from nothing.
Let us begin making stuff from nothing.
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Being able to make parts that fit together, without needing to use my completely unreliable hands was kinda amazing.
Not sure how much it count, but I'm probably going to be splitting a laser cutter with a couple friends sometime early summer.
I printed some custom moldings for our poles when we did our basement and made well-designed clips to retain paneling while adhesive cured. I also printed a shitload of painted triangles that I probably could have just bought but I printed instead.
I also played around a little with photogrammetry and gave my kid a good model of her favorite stuffed friend. Which was fun.
It hasn't been super useful or saved money but it has justified its purchase as a useful tool.
It's mostly been a slight frustration keeping it level, smooth prints, and "oh my god why isn't anything sticking!".
if you can make stuff with it, this is the thread for you! I was minutes from surgery so i had to hurry up and post. I'll edit the title.
I have a cnc machine (the nomad 883 from carbide 3d). Which I've had for 3 years now? That's been my main squeeze. I've been churning out a bunch of random stuff (mostly failures) that I'll post about tomorrow, since I'm on my phone currently.
I'm currently working on a fairly large batch of ghosts from destiny that use both machines (I think I have 11 planned, but 7 are done).
Dude, I would love a Ghost. Get well present??? I kid, I kid. Seriously though. Want one. Are you on Instagram? are we friends there already?
I'm pretty sure we are? But yeah, I'd be down for making one, or you can pick one of the in progress ones. They take like 20 hours of machine time so it'll be a bit (also there's a bit of manual clean up).
I think this was one of my favorite color schemes:
I'll have to take a picture of the ones currently in process.
Some of the other ones I've done previously:
and also a 3d modeling thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/222681/3d-modeling-thread#latest
This is Industry 4.0 all up in here. I'll check it out though.
You could I guess, but it would be cheaper and easier to just throw out the old stuff and drop $20 on a rubbermaid pack at the store.
I've printed a few things for the kitchen just for the hell of it but most of it is far inferior to even the cheapest equivalent manufactufed stuff. PLA also doesn't hold up to a dishwasher.
So, technically yes but not advisable. There probably are more expensive options to do it.
But see I'm really lazy and I want technology to enable that.
Oooh.. 3D printed drawer organizers sound great.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
What kind of engine? What components are you making of carbon? How are you addressing the unique physical, chemical, and thermal strains rocket parts experience?
Rocket Labs has done a lot of additive manufacturing in their Electron and upcoming Neutron rockets, and Astra's Rocket rockets* uses even more and with less expensive materials but they've been having some issues with reliability.
*-Rocket is the proper name, I think the current version is Rocket 3
Yes but printing off a couple dozen bowls and lids is far more effort than chucking a box in your cart the next time you are at the store.
And probably cheaper than even the very cheapest not-food-safe filament you can find.
It will just be Estes solid rocket motors to start. As I get more comfortable with the printer I'll upgrade to larger engines and examine custom options. I don't have a metal 3d printer because I am operating out of a 2 bedroom apartment. The main tube and fins will be CCF and PETG. the nosecone will be a hunk of CF Nylon 12 from MakerBot.
They are pretty awesome. Are you reasonably close to DC area? I have a shapeoko 3xxl that I got for a collaboration that ended up falling through and don't have the space to have it in the house.
Sadly, I'm just about as physically far from DC as you can be in the continental united states.
Hey, @tynic -we found you a new recruit.
I get the impression that on top of the health safety concerns. It's probably cheaper to buy pyrex or some other quality glassware replacements for food storage.
Anyways for the average consumer, I see the 3D printer falling into the realm of the Blu-ray burner and scanner. As in most people aren't going to make good use of it and it'll sit around mostly collecting dust. Actually, I cringe at ideas to try to make it more appealing to the average consumer because then it just ends up being something that further encourages the average consumer to double down on wasteful practices. "Screw buying tableware and dining sets and having to wash them everyday! I'll just print out a new set everyday and throw it in the trash when I'm done!"
I've mentioned in a previous thread on 3D printing, that people are ignoring the potential it'll have in retail. It's easy to spot the boons that it brings to manufacturing and for hobbyists, where at a minimum, it makes it easier to create items you might not easily get.
For retail, there is the benefit in that your spending less on items that don't sell and probably having to have some software or expert trying to predict how much of X you should by for optimal profits. If you can print it, all you need to do is work on the compensation that patent holder gets for each of X you print out. Also probably has boons in regards to cost savings on storage. For instance if you can print out plastic toy T-rexes that are a 30cm tall, that probably far less space being used since now you can store that as the plastic and dye used for printing and both of those can be used for other products.
Also might reduce losses to theft. Though not sure how much it will matter because it might get relegated to more low end products that people don't usually steal because there just isn't much of a market that allows one to mark up the price. Also wouldn't be surprised if Mattel and other big toy companies opposed the idea because it might force them to lower prices, since it'll get harder to claim their products will become super hard to find collectibles (which IMO is already laughable because they intentional manufacture tons of their products knowing full well suckers will buy up a ton of them believing the value will unrealistically skyrocket).
He's interested in my rapid mfg capability!
...maybe some filament though shipping there seems like a questionable proposition vs it's in the same big box as the printer. Spools are girthy.
I'm in Austin, fwiw.
@bowen has been on the fence about a printer for basically forever.
Also, I am in talks for a deal that could have these printers spewing out consumer items that I design engineer at a prodigious rate.
Programmable microfluidics
Collaborative robots are just cool
Want!