Incredible. I may be the only one in the dark, but until this moment I had no idea 3D printing at this high a fidelity was possible. It looks like a real bee.
Last I knew, the best 3D prints still looked like hardened play dough
Incredible. I may be the only one in the dark, but until this moment I had no idea 3D printing at this high a fidelity was possible. It looks like a real bee.
Last I knew, the best 3D prints still looked like hardened play dough
It's different kinds of printers. That's a resin printer - pretty high-end one. I'm not getting that result on my Bambu P1S.
Calling it a resin printer is like calling a FDM printer and injection molding machines in the same category, both can melt ABS but the way they work and capabilities are completely different.
Same thing here hardly anything common with hobbyist resin printers beside using some kind of UV curable resin. And as with other 3d printing technologies Stratasys is decade ahead in terms of research and commercialization sitting on all the relevant patents and selling expensive machines (sometimes as a result of acquisition).
Once the patents ran out maybe there will be more advancements and general availability. Although I expect much longer delay compared to FDM and SLA/DLP 3d printers. Inkjet printing on paper is already complicated and finicky enough, It's not something a hobbyist can make from scratch in a garage. Add a resin which will by design solidify when exposed to light potential destroying the inkjet nozzles, and doesn't necessarily behave as regular ink when attempting to spray it through inkjet head and you get the need for some serious investment to recreate the technology even with patents expired. The recent hobbyist 2d UV printers are step in this direction, but commercial/industrial UV printers have existed for quite a while. To me this suggests there is additional gap in patents/technological challenges between textured 2d UV printers, and full 3d UV inkjet printing.
But how does resin do colors?
UV Inkjet.
HeyGears is releasing a prosumer full color UV inkjet resin printer this year for < $2K: https://store.heygears.com/products/heygears-g1-direct
Heygears don't seem to have the best track record https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1bu3mv1/avoid_t...
Well, to actually 3D print looks like it’s $3300, but still that’s really incredible! Seems substantially less messy than the resin printers I played around with a few years ago.
One approach is to just print CMYK resin like an inkjet printer (and then cure it with UV).
Do that hundreds or thousands of times and you eventually get Z height.
Look up the EufyMake E1 for a consumer/prosumer version.
The EufiMake isn't really a 3D printer though. It's more a normal printer that can do an embossed/textured print.
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I do a lot of 3D printing and I had no idea either. I did some searching and this printer is as big as a work bench and likely costs around $200,000.
Same. This is insane, I had no idea!
There's nothing I personally want to bring, but these would make AMAZING gifts, cool things for your desk/bookcase, etc.
There have got to be so many interesting, educational, and cultural objects you could print like this, and the fact you can "blow up" an object like a insect is even cooler.
Depending on the price, this feels like something that could take off in a big way.
There s a whole spectrum between hardened play dough and the bee in TFA. A $200 printer with a 0.2 mm nozzle and proper setup (ironing calibration etc.) is already capable of making 3D prototype prints with details that look professional (e.g. highly legible tiny fonts).
An example would be the multicolor articulated dragons that are flooding flea markets and garage sales around the world : when printed properly they are highly detailed and looked mass produced. Unsuspecting parents buy those for their kids and have zero idea these were 3D printed on $200 printers.
The 3D printing world progressed a huge lot in a few years, which is what prompted me to buy one. It progressed so much it s basically solved.