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man thats freakin cool

Those plastic printing machines are fantastic, ive seen one at Swinburne i think it was that was reproducing someones 3d xray'd skull that had been smashed in, so not only could surgeons physically see what they had to do and where, they could also produce an exact plug of plastic skull to insert into the real skull to reshape the persons head.

I want one

Imagine what Cynthia Plaster Caster could've done with one?

The most amazing bit is the ability for it to make assembled moving parts.
that stunned me !

On a side note pretty scary what leno said about all there gearing manufaucturing being sold to china, india ect.

PJ.zook wrote:Those plastic printing machines are fantastic, ive seen one at Swinburne i think it was that was reproducing someones 3d xray'd skull that had been smashed in, so not only could surgeons physically see what they had to do and where, they could also produce an exact plug of plastic skull to insert into the real skull to reshape the persons head.

I was at a company in the late "90's that had a similar machine. They would make the skull peices in plastic, then use it as a core for investment casting stainless.

This is the reason why fitter and turner trade is dying big time.

CNC really chopped it up and this would just kill the whole trade.

It's funny as for the first 5 or so mins it's scan and print then CNC it then at the very end it's print up the part/test then take it to a fitter and turner to get the part made.

If you take it to someone who knows their job they can do it fairly quick, even on manual machines.

The one problem I can see is the crack was also scanned on the 3D model, so if that wasn't fixed up then that will be printed as well and would also get CNCed if it wasn't fixed up at that point either.

Not too dear on the scanner the printer is around $50,000 I think as only 3 of them can do the moving parts, there's around 20-30 different 3D printers, but you can pick up a 3D printer for around $10,000 maybe cheaper now.

pretty exy on the pastic powder and stuff though.

I guess the real funny parts is this.

That part is sand cast.

So they could have just gotten a box of sand
put that part in the sand
then pour in some melten metal
remove the sand
and your new part is ready to go.

that would be the quickest way to get an exact same part, I would say.

Another dying trade as well I think.

technology is getting so good

zagan wrote:This is the reason why fitter and turner trade is dying big time.

CNC really chopped it up and this would just kill the whole trade.

It's funny as for the first 5 or so mins it's scan and print then CNC it then at the very end it's print up the part/test then take it to a fitter and turner to get the part made.

If you take it to someone who knows their job they can do it fairly quick, even on manual machines.

The one problem I can see is the crack was also scanned on the 3D model, so if that wasn't fixed up then that will be printed as well and would also get CNCed if it wasn't fixed up at that point either.

Not too dear on the scanner the printer is around $50,000 I think as only 3 of them can do the moving parts, there's around 20-30 different 3D printers, but you can pick up a 3D printer for around $10,000 maybe cheaper now.

pretty exy on the pastic powder and stuff though.

I guess the real funny parts is this.

That part is sand cast.

So they could have just gotten a box of sand
put that part in the sand
then pour in some melten metal
remove the sand
and your new part is ready to go.

that would be the quickest way to get an exact same part, I would say.

Another dying trade as well I think.

Agreed, after the part is CNCed it will still require polishing to get rid of the machine tool lay.

Toolmaking is basically gone now, no real skill required to cnc something.

Harb wrote:http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f1317f105123 ... 7d3bfd6c81

We kind of have the same thing at work, not quite as accurate as that tho as it works at longer ranges (<50m and <300m) but we are able to model pipes, steel, flanges, cones etc etc in plant areas down to +/- 2mm.

Id imagine that particular machine could probably work to +/-1mm easily and perhaps at down to +/- 500 microns

I also have access to faro arms etc which work even better than that

I've already got one.

Chimpboy. Ohh oh now you have done it. Just watch all the scanning requests flow in.!!

Nextengine are associated with solidworks, and all solidworks 3D CAD users got emails about the desktop scanner. They are great, but best
suited to small parts. I like these but they are 39 grand US.

http://www.creaform3d.com/en/handyscan3 ... video.aspx

There's a free way to 3D scan. I haven't tried it because I'd need to buy a fan laser pointed from europe.
Apparently you can use a projector.

http://www.david-laserscanner.com/

MMMMMMM...........is it wrong that i have a half mongrel after watching that?

joeblow wrote:MMMMMMM...........is it wrong that i have a half mongrel after watching that?

only if you start touching yourself.

r0ck_m0nkey wrote:

joeblow wrote:MMMMMMM...........is it wrong that i have a half mongrel after watching that?

only if you start scanning yourself.

fixed

would be a very quick scan..........