Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Rapid Prototyping SL, SLS, FDM, LOM


Rapid Prototyping SL, SLS, FDM, LOM
I’m very excited to be getting the machines to do this kind of work.  It seems very interesting to me to be able to produce these proto types this quick.  After watching the videos I was still confused on how they work exactly.  The 3D printing seems to be the most logical to me.  The powder layers becoming solid from the laser of some sort was cool too though, I just hate that you have to scrape away all the left overs after. The other is coil fed and lays down a material in layers, or that’s how I took it. But this doesn’t have quite the finish leaving a stair step surfaces on some parts.  The makerbot is sweet!  I wish I had enough money to buy one, my project would be tight!  I like the idea of all these people/artist/engineers/small business owner/ etc. get to use these on their own, creating whatever they want!  I can definitely see a future in this technology.  I’m sure soon every design program will have a few of these for students to use.  And I think J leno has something like this to create exact parts for his old car collection.

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