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The Solheim Rapid Additive Manufacturing Lab supports continuing efforts to explore materials and concepts associated with 3D printing. The lab operates across departments, including: engineering, art, DXArts, architecture, industrial design and recently radiology/medicine. Products from the lab have been displayed in the Kline Art Museum and DHUB Barcelona, in addition to rapid prototyping for various projects. These efforts were kick off with the “Printed Pot” article written by Profs Mark Ganter and Duane Storti and published in Ceramics Monthly.
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Hi there!
Your site here has inspired me with so much cool stuff, that I want to look into trying this out. I’m fairly certain that I wouldn’t be able to afford one, but what type of printer have you tested out the glass printing on? I want to search around Los Angeles and see if there are any opportunities to try this out! Thanks!
Zack, There are basically two vendors for 3DP hardware: ZCorp and Exone/Prometal. You should be able to
use equipment from either group. If you look oninternet auction sites, there is quite often used equipment
available. We have been using Z400 class machines, Z300 and Z310 class machines (all monochrome) with
good luck. Also, the Exone/Prometal RD1 hardware is VERY flexible and we used it for a research project
involving dental ceramics.
Please keep us posted on your progress.
has anyone looked into printing directly into graphite powder? and if so would it be strong enough to use in an EDM (electronic discharge machine)?
Tim, yes graphite has come up in group meetings several times. One would need to find graphite in 20-40 micron particle size (likely available). Next, one must be willing to make a complete mess out of your machine (as powder graphite can produce messes that are legendary). Also, you will need to find an adhesive that you can use with graphite and doesn’t degrade in the EDM tank. Overall, we think that it will likely work BUT the mess will be amazing. If you try it, please take pictures and send them. We would be happy to post them.
Wow
I feel like I hit the mother load with this site. I recently acquired a Z 402 and am working on getting it up and running.I am also working on starting a 400 series user group and was wondering if you guys would be interested. I also read your post on the OTB (Out of the Bag) Hydroperm idea for powder. Are using this powder in a 402 type machine. Also I was wondering if you are using the Rice wine as a Binder and if you can recommend a particular brand.
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Thanks
Dimitrios Papagiannis
Dimitrios, yes VOHP works in the 400/402 just fine. There are several binders that work look at XF1 or XB1. We are currently having the best luck with XB1 – isopropyl alcohol and water mix (use the search function on this site to locate the binders or look on the recipes tab).
The bone powder is interesting, I wonder if crab shells could be used?.
John, generally ANYTHING that you can find in the correct powder size (20-60 microns) should work.
Hello,
i wanted to inform you about a new powder recipe i found in the internet. Its very fine powder of wood and the resulting objects are supposed to have similiar strength as MDF and similiar detail as laser sintering. Below is the website with the related information:
http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2011/.....-wood.html
Maybe you could experiment with this recipe and reproduce the claimed results
Thanks
Thanks for the information. To bad it was an April Fool’s joke.
Hey guys-
I just bought a used 310 . And I found your site a few days later. I love the timing. I have been over all of the recipes and I thank you again and again! I love the site but would love to see a forum started to see how topics progress. For example, how vohp and hydrocal/ perm and xf1, xb1, rice cooking wine is working for particular machines. This way people could submit there own images and interact more than just commenting to different articles. If not on this site, perhaps start a forum only site to work in cooperation with this site. Food for thought. I know I would love to submit some images and ideas but don’t have the computer website savy to start my own. You have a great site and I hope to participate more in the coming future.
Thanks,
Broms
Broms, there is a group on yahoo groups called zcorp402. Please check them out.
Just downloaded the inkjet stuff, thank you, thank you, thank you,
this will advance 3DP, and help us tinkerers get into using printheads.
Hi
Your site is submitted and listed in the 3D Printing Directory. Hope it helps expanding your media coverage. Below is the site that you are listed in:
http://www.3ders.org/directory/
Regards,
Thanks!!!
Congratulations to Prof. Ganter and all the printistas in the Solheim lab! I just saw an article in this morning’s Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ing27.html
Thanks for your appreciation and support Kevin.
Hi,
I follow your website almost since the beginning of the Open3DP, and your works are a huge inspiration for me – your powder and binder recipes was my start point. It took me a while, but now we are printing only using our powders, binders and washing fluid. All this greatly reduces the costs of the 3D printing and allow us to offer quite unique products. We started as a typical service bureau but now everything has changed. It happened that way because I believe, powder printing is not ideal for most prototyping aplications, where the accuracy of finished parts, or certain material properties are required. But I found it great for custom 3D printed miniatures, especially colour architecture models, representing complex buildings, with great number of details, such as stadiums, hotels, offices and other. I didn’t find an offer similar to ours and I would like to show you our creations as I believe you had a great input in our works.
I’m writing this also, because It seems to me that good old powder printing 3DP is over the hype and now the focus of 3D printing society in pointed toward other 3D printing technologies. And I think that it’s a time when 3DP should be (apart of prototyping business) considered as a standard manufacturing technology, of course with it’s own pros and cons and specific aplications, such as ours. I belive that at this point we are able to compete with off-shore factories, which offer die cast models, especially when it comes to small, complex, colour models and flexibility of the scale and quantity. Single powder printer and the staff of 2 can produce up to 50 000 pcs of mini stadiums or other buildings per month with the details and colour aplication precision unmatched by hand painting. So I see this as a great opportunity for licensed products manufacturing and mass distributed advertising gadgets. And all of this is possible in a part thanks to you. So thank you and keep up the good work.
Dear Geniuses, (how else should I address you?) ,
I am putting together a road trip for 4 days and was wondering if any of you had an experiment that you would be willing to take on the road to Zcon 2013, If your project could be manufactured in route and documented along the way by press/video/you, This is an open source project but we will respect your IP. So if you like the idea of spending 4 days pushing the boundaries of science while crammed into an RV with other mad scientists. No Tesla coils please!
This project will attract some big name vendors or it won’t get the green light so if you want to meet and network with pioneers, visionaries and investors then maybe become one (or a bigger one), the sooner you get your name out there the better.
Email me ASAP there are only 8 slots left. With your email please include what you want to accomplish/learn by doing this experiment in person.
Let us choose the time my friends, and let it be now.
Cheers
Michael Freer
Founder
3DAppVentures