The 3D Printer Thread

[silversurfer1947]

Interesting. Should be no problem to a man of your calibre. I particularly liked the use of magnets for the suspension. Just out of interest, do you know what language he was speaking? I did not recognize it.

[wibblywobbly]

I assumed it was Russian, or maybe Polish, the guys over there seem to have engineering skills that have long been lost in this country.

His gearbox is ingenious, and the way that it all clips together is remarkably clever, not only from a design perspective, but his printer has to be very accurate as well. He shows how he did the tracks, which solves a mystery regarding how to print them in one piece. Must have taken him a very long time to do all that.

[Jussek]

Interesting. Should be no problem to a man of your calibre. I particularly liked the use of magnets for the suspension. Just out of interest, do you know what language he was speaking? I did not recognize it.

portuguese

[wibblywobbly]

I will add Portugal to my list of engineering centres of excellence.

[AlwynTurner]

My flabber is truly gasted!!

It just demonstrates how little I know and how much I still have to learn.........

An awesome bit of conceptualisation, design, and build.

Alwyn

[silversurfer1947]

This is slightly off topic, but is closely related. Is there such a beast as a reasonable quality 3D scanner that does not cost an arm and a leg that is capable of scanning something about the size of a 1/16th scale figure? Smaller items e.g. individual limbs would be even better

[wibblywobbly]

All off the shelf laser scanners cost hundreds, there are some open source ones. There are no cheap and easy solutions, the only way to do that is make one, and that is quite a bit of work, and still not what I would call cheap?

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:740357
http://diwo.bq.com/en/tag/ciclop/
http://reprap.org/wiki/Ciclop

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and a cheap 3d printer

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[silversurfer1947]

Looking at the Cyclops video, the quality of the end result is not very good. It would not be up to reproducing figures. I'll have to put my brain in gear again.

[wibblywobbly]

If you have a PC with a fairly powerful processor and graphics card there are two other options:

Blender:

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Sculptris:

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[silversurfer1947]

That looks very interesting. Do you know if there were any naked British artillery crews during WW2?

My desktop is fairly powerful with a decent graphics card- I bought it for running full Photoshop. I will download the software and MakeHuman and see what happens.