3D printing Bandi Japan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgfbteTLfY&feature=related

Mental video

I think we should adopt their work cloths

1:1 zbrush figure print

Hows this for size!

a 7ft video game charictor modled in z brush and printed in an unknown amount of pieces!

via

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=88937

2D projections of a 3D print

Mind = Blown away

video

via

http://drzachsuchy.ch/shadow-cloud/

check it

http://design-milk.com/deconstruction-cell-cycle-by-nervous-system/

and

http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/cellCycle/index.php

enjoy @_@

Blogging

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Skydrive

Hello all -

A reminder that all work to be done on the lasers require you to have had your files checked and are then uploaded onto your skydrive. No USBs on the laser PCs :)

happy lasering xx

TCT Live 2010

Woop what a day - most spent in a car but some was spent at the awsome TCT live in Coventry.

Check out the Set on FlickR

Not much has changed from last year, machines have gotten smaller still and resolutions are getting higher. Things are getting cheeper but still out the reach of us poor people. :(

Jobbage

After many months of getting things right - I got a big job from Dayfold to cut 500 peices of red paper.

Lots of overtime later and a borrowed laser from our lovely friends at Textiles, we got the job done with minuets to spare!





I look forward to seeing the folded sleve.

Super glue spray fail

superdrug's spray dispensers don't work with super glue.

I got around 3 pumps before the stupid thing stuck itself together.




those three pumps looked promising though - I ended up dropping glue onto the model - it was a pain in the proverbial but gives quick and durable results.

If you have a day to spare while the thing cures I would recommend using resin due to the infiltration qualities. Edit - Superglue FTW more costly but srsly its where its at!

Will's Flywheel

At it again - Will is making bits for his trains.

This time we went for a 'case study' appraoch and flexed our brain muscles for a bit of a challenge.



After seeing things like this on the web and print brouchures we thought we would give it ago outselves.

Solidworks still being new to us, I went in and drew up a fly wheel which overall was pretty simple - I did draw it three times before we were satisfied however!



Using the mould tools integrated into solidworks - and several hours of trying to figure things out we got our two peice mould, made a quick STL and off we went to the printer.





So when all the prints were out - cleaned off with the air but we were impatant and took it out before they had finnished being baked in the machine - so we transfered them into the oven upstairs for a blast for around 30 mins.



Being a bit of a noob the pour hole was a little small - so I countersunked it to enlarge - and maskeing taped the two halves together. We then embeded it into the sand pit ready for a pour.







And the pour..



After a short period to let the pewter cool - we got the part out the sand and peeled off the tape.

We were suprised of the weight - assuming things must have gone what right for us!



Hitting it with a hammer - the only solution for a stuborn mould!



After a demoulding by hammers - scrapers and a quick sandblast we have the part!!



And the money shot:

Solidworks more like solid wtf how do you get this to work?!

So yeah new year new software installed - we have an academic licence of Solidworks and CAMWorks - here's to hoping you already know how to use them!

Solidworks is pretty hot - I have been playing with it for a month or two now and getting the hang of it more, the more I use it. I actually really like it - it feels more intuitive than Rhino - in fact I barely open rhino any more other than drafting for the laser.

CAMWorks on the other hand though is something else - even getting the thing to load and find the licence is something like voodoo.

It should be a great product that seamlessly links 3D solid modeling with CAM and our Mill - so far its just making nice 3D digital models with no cam any time soon.

What this post was meant to be about....

I did manage to get a few models 3D printed here is my favorite!



Yes, it is a pink cathedral

Yeah new term

Hi Everybody!

Welcome back and a big hello to all the noobs joining us this year!

Lets kick some ass!!