3D Printing
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IIRC, they do tri color printing. The one's I have seen in person as stated earlier are hobbyist models that only do one color at a time.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
IIRC, they do tri color printing. The one's I have seen in person as stated earlier are hobbyist models that only do one color at a time.
Got it. To be honest I'm really not sure what our end goal is. I was asked for my opinion and didn't want to say I don't have one, I will mention how far out of my skill set this is.
From what one of the engineers mentioned we would be looking at printing low utility/load parts that we currently make out of metal to save weight on some of our "mobile" products. Which are few and far between for sports construction.
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This is one aspect of printing I have not touched yet...sadly...
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That Dremel unit looks really cool. I kind of want to just go out and buy one.
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@coliver said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
IIRC, they do tri color printing. The one's I have seen in person as stated earlier are hobbyist models that only do one color at a time.
Got it. To be honest I'm really not sure what our end goal is. I was asked for my opinion and didn't want to say I don't have one, I will mention how far out of my skill set this is.
From what one of the engineers mentioned we would be looking at printing low utility/load parts that we currently make out of metal to save weight on some of our "mobile" products. Which are few and far between for sports construction.
The use case is there but they better be prepared to spend some money on it. I remember reading about a 3D metal printer too that was being used for surgical tools. Can't find the link and video ATM but I do remember it being a Japanese company.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@coliver said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
IIRC, they do tri color printing. The one's I have seen in person as stated earlier are hobbyist models that only do one color at a time.
Got it. To be honest I'm really not sure what our end goal is. I was asked for my opinion and didn't want to say I don't have one, I will mention how far out of my skill set this is.
From what one of the engineers mentioned we would be looking at printing low utility/load parts that we currently make out of metal to save weight on some of our "mobile" products. Which are few and far between for sports construction.
The use case is there but they better be prepared to spend some money on it. I remember reading about a 3D metal printer too that was being used for surgical tools. Can't find the link and video ATM but I do remember it being a Japanese company.
We are a metal shop so that would be really cool.
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I've seen metal printing services. Don't have any idea as to cost or availability but I do know that they exist today.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I've seen metal printing services. Don't have any idea as to cost or availability but I do know that they exist today.
3D Systems does direct to metal 3D printing... which is really cool.
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Relevant video from CES 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7riJ7Dr0AU
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Once 3D printing is cheap enough, it is really going to change a lot of things. Amazon will primarily deliver plastic and metal printer cartridges instead of finished products much of the time.
