What is the good 3D printer now?
What is the good 3D printer now?
(OP)
I know this question has been asking million times. Since this is a big investment for my company I need to get the most update information from your suggestion.
I'm looking for a 3D printer for prototyping. Our company use Solidworks and most of our products are made of aluminum and carbon plate. The biggest size of our product is about 12inch x 6 inch x 6 inch. What is your suggestion? Thanks a lot.
I'm looking for a 3D printer for prototyping. Our company use Solidworks and most of our products are made of aluminum and carbon plate. The biggest size of our product is about 12inch x 6 inch x 6 inch. What is your suggestion? Thanks a lot.






RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
Zcorp can print color parts and multiple colors at the same time, but the parts are powder based and more fragile than others.
FDM is flexible provided you do not flex across the layers, can print only one color at a time. Surface finish is not that great but can be sanded if need be. Large parts can have a matrix weave on the inside instead of solid to same on material and build time.
Object can make soft or rigid parts but the machines that can do both with out swapping out materials are pretty expensive. The print time is fast.
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
I need to make a rigid part. My real product is either steel or aluminum. So, the more rigid the better for my need. Single color is fine. The print time is not really matter. Accuracy 0.05mm is the best, I know this should be too much for my budget at that high accuracy. I can accept 0.1mm accuracy.
Any good brand to recommend me thanks
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
If you want metal there are companies who can make steel parts similar to SLA. There is one company in NH that I know of, Vaupell Rapid Solutions. They do other things in different states as well but their rapid prototyping stuff, SLA, SLS, FDM ect is done in NH.
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
thread559-304478: 3D printing
Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP5.0
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://botmill.com/index.php/3d-printers.html ($1300/1000kit)
http://store.makerbot.com/ ($2500/1200kit)
The material is PLA (polylactic acid) or
ABA (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). Both are pretty rigid.
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
RE: What is the good 3D printer now?
If first you do succeed...try something harder.
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