Pretty Cool Machine

TLRam1 · Post by **TLRam1** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:39 pm

It will make models of working parts, as Leno puts it, sorta like the Jetson's.

http://tinyurl.com/dluudu

jkevinlilly · Post by **jkevinlilly** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:12 pm

Didn't open for me Terry. May be an issue with the dialup I use.

Kevin

chainsaw · Post by **chainsaw** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:15 pm

WOW !!!

that amazing.

TLRam1 · Post by **TLRam1** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:17 pm

jkevinlilly wrote:Didn't open for me Terry. May be an issue with the dialup I use.

Kevin

I tried it from the link, it works Kevin. May have to try from another connection as you say.

Post by **Suzsmokeyallan** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:07 pm

Its neat and it works really well, ive seen some 'printed' samples recently from a person in the business and the quality of the detail was amazing.

diamondj · Post by **diamondj** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:54 pm

I'd like to have that TZ tank they had on the workbench table. I see the 3-D printers all the time at some of the pharma trade shows I go to. The only drawback I see is they can only create plastic parts mostly for rapid prototyping. The scanner on the other hand was pretty cool. Feed the scanned file into a CNC and go.

tz375 · Post by **tz375** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:30 pm

That tank is a TA125 twin. Very nice

m in sc · Post by **m in sc** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:29 pm

ive had some stuff prototyped like that from solidworks files, its very very cool stuff indeed. nothing 'cool' though, only work related items. but, it was stuff i designed. neat to see it go from sketch to a 2-d to a 3-d to a real world item. can also produce cut aways for presentations. good stuff!!!

excellent tool for mold makers too.....

diamondj · Post by **diamondj** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:50 pm

tz375 wrote:That tank is a TA125 twin. Very nice

Whoops. My mistake! Still a sweet tank - makes you wonder what interesting motorcycles Jay has in his collection besides Harleys or Vincents...

m in sc · Post by **m in sc** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:16 am

thanks for posting this... after showing this to the compnay owner we will very possibly have that scanner for doing 3d models in the next 12mos.

rngdng · Post by **rngdng** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:35 pm

m in sc wrote:thanks for posting this... after showing this to the compnay owner we will very possibly have that scanner for doing 3d models in the next 12mos.

COOL AS HELL!!!!!!

Lane

krwalsh · Post by **krwalsh** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:57 pm

The scanner is neat. They've put a pretty nice package together for $3k. It seems a bit slow, but that is because of the technology they are using. 10 years ago I worked for a company doing similar things, but we could do that whole thing in about 5 seconds. We used structured laser light instead of a point or line. Of course it cost about 100 times what they are selling theirs for. We did put it to work on a cylinder head assembly line and could machine cylinder heads to match combustion chamber volumes while the heads passed from one machining center to the next.

The FDM machine is cool, but the 3D printers that do direct to metal are a bit more useful.

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