Hey Art,
I love the God mode folder as well lol. Its amazing when you look at it and see everythin
g that's there.
As your mentionin
g 3d printers I'm assuming your refering to fdm printers, I don't know how aware you are of the changes that are happening within the Resin Printer market.
There have been a ton of changes there particula
rly in the types of resins that are available
.
As a by the by, Elegoo Saturn if you look up that particula
r resin printer, it has a build platform of 7.55in x 4.72 x 7.87 which is huge, no heres the kicker they have sold out already till September and all for under $500.
https://www.elegoosaturn.com/products/elegoo-saturn-8-9-inch-4k-uv-lcd-3d-printerWhere it gets exciting is the changes in the types of resins now that are available
. You can have a look here..
https://monocure3d.com.au/product-category/rapid-tuff-resin/When you mentioned your coding for a fasteners program.
This crowd in Australia are producing a Tuff resing High Tensile resin which can be machined and pretty much smacked with a hammer. Perfect now for making fasteners particula
rly the fancy ones for small projects, modelers are falling over themselve
s using this product.
I've made fasteners with my FDM printer and they come out ok but you have to sand and manipulat
e post process to make them suitable.
I have done some small fasteners with resin but they easily shatter and break so not really suitable, I purchased some test bottles of the Tuff product and pretty much smack them with a hammer hard and will not turn to dust.
There is resin now also that is water soluble as well as carbon fiber, ceramic resin etc a lot of product that is all geared to making engineeri
ng test models which are much more resilient than FDM.
The resin printers are so much faster than FDM as the build speed for volume is already known, eg if I wanted to print a 7 inch tall bolt it would take say 5 hours to complete, and for arguments sake to do the same with an FDM the time is comparabl
e. The compariso
n ends there in the building of 1.. If you were to say print 4 your FDM of course the time increases pretty much by a factor of 4. Where as a resin printer if your build volume is say 5 x 5 x 5 as an example whether you print 1 or 20 the build time is 5 hours.
The other advantage of resin printers is that the models you can produce are micron accurate. There is virtually no post processin
g apart from curing the resin, pretty much no sanding the only places you need to post process is where the supports for your model are.
A couple of pics for you to look at, detail available to you with resin printing and gears designed with Gearotic for the Orrery Im modifying and improving
.
As a by the by having an Orrery Gear train would be nice in Gearotic lol....
Cheers and greetings fromt he colonysdo
wnunder.
Steve
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