Group to bring together all the 3D Printers on DA. Do you own a Makerbot? A thing-o-matic, Replicator or Cupcake? Own a RepRap? Do you frequent the Thingiverse, submit your own creations or print things other people have made and shared? Or do you commonly use a service like Shapeways, Kraftwurx, or i.materialise to print your 3D models? Post your work and results here!
Group to bring together all the 3D Printers on DA. Do you own a Makerbot? A thing-o-matic, Replicator or Cupcake? Own a RepRap? Do you frequent the Thingiverse, submit your own creations or print things other people have made and shared? Or do you commonly use a service like Shapeways, Kraftwurx, or i.materialise to print your 3D models? Post your work and results here!
Anyone can join! Anyone can submit art! Anyone can recommend a Favorite to the group. Things are auto-approved, so there's no wait time. You don't have to join the group to submit your deviations, if that's what you want.
I've just come across a seriously amazing new technique for getting prints that look as good, and sometimes better, than injection-molded plastic.
It only works with ABS, so those of you who print with PLA - this won't help you any. Sorry.
Here's a couple of prints my buddy made and did this to - Seriously! He printed those on a RepRap! You'd never ever guess it - no visible layers AT ALL.
Here's a video demonstrating the technique - the video is kind of crappy, sorry - hah. I've personally tried it and it's AMAZING how well this works.
Here's a blog post that explains the steps better than the video -
China Based, but with a surprisingly coherent site. Just ordered one (as Im in China) and waiting to see what its like. It "should" arrive fully assembled and tested, and they can apparently ship international.
I actually just ordered one too. I've already got 5 makerbot replicators, and the prospect of getting a makerbot 'copy' for only $1200 was too tempting not to at least try it out. I emailed their support and they say it supports Makerbot's firmwares. If it really does support Firmware 7.0 and higher, and accelleration, it'll be a huge score.
They also say that they made improvements on the board and it looks like they fixed the problem with the fuse capacitor (the Makerbot Mightyboard doesn't have ANY fuses, so if it gets a shock, the whole board blows - I've had two blow on me in the last year, and it sucks because I live in the 'high desert' of Oregon and there's a lot of static here).
Anyway, I'm hopeful, and since I've got a lot of experience with 'real' makerbots, I can give a good review on the 'Fakerbot' to see if it's really a good duplicate or not.
Wow, sounds like you're using these for more than just hobby printing.
Based on my (Completely noobish) experience with the flashforge I couldn't be more satisfied. I started printing right out of the box and have only recently begun to run into problems as I've started building things close to the max size of the build platform. Even then, the issues I've run into are more than likely the result of my own errors more than the fault of the printer.
I'd be interested to hear about your experience with them after ordering the printer international. As mine only had to travel through the china domestic shipping channels I got it in about 24 hours and was in immaculate condition. Whether or not it arrives in the same condition after crossing the pond would be interesting to find out.
[link] <-- This, is a 3D Printer, and all of the little objects you see in the scene with it, are things that a 3D printer can print.
Specifically, the one shown here is a 3D printer called a Replicator from a company called Makerbot. But there are lots and lots of different 3d printers out there, as the designs and software for them is all OpenSource*.
*(The at-home ones. There are high-end professional models used by the big services like www.shapeways.com that cost around $60,000 and are an entirely different beast.)
We've got a journal with videos demonstrating 3D printers, doing what 3D printers do. --> [link]
Hey guys, I make tiny ball jointed dolls, and I use shapeways. What I want to know is does anyone have access to a 3D printer that has a resin material that does good detail and comes out smooth? If you do let me know!
Excellent question. Its getting there. I print at home with a Makerbot Replicator and just in the short time I've been doing this they've upgraded their programs and firmware to make things print higher detail. I've been getting pretty close, especially when printing in PLA.
Actually, with the release of the Replicator 2 about a month ago and re-designs on firmware like Sailfish, you can print at 100 microns, so we're able to do that now.
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