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PhlatPrinter could be useful to SU Users.

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  • K Offline
    ken
    last edited by 7 Jul 2009, 23:53

    Mike

    Please continue. I do a lot of research (playfull looking), however, you always seem to find things I am interested in. So please keep the post coming.

    Ken, always gratefull for any info concerning Sketchup, since I now earn my living by this program.

    Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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      Coronel
      last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 00:14

      I read about this one before but any new is always welcome for me.
      This model is a little priced anyway. You can find more robust and versatile cnc drill machines from China actually for similar prices or even cheaper. This one is more ecological.

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        ely862me
        last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 00:15

        Interesting stuff...maybe this is a short way for cutting the sections of my car ..i think i m on the way to make a cnc router πŸ˜†
        Thanks for bringing this in our attention !

        Elisei


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          Mike Lucey
          last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 00:25

          @unknownuser said:

          And why not 3D Sugar Printer?

          Does 3D Sugar printer use some app to 'model' the end results. Or is it a p take? Haven't read much there but again I'm not much into sugar creations πŸ˜„

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            Mike Lucey
            last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 00:29

            Yeah Elisei, I could see it being useful for car model mockups πŸ‘

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              pilou
              last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 02:33

              @unknownuser said:

              Does 3D Sugar printer use some app to 'model' the end results

              The funny of the thing is that it's Sketchup who is used for the construction of the 3D Sugar printing machine!!! β˜€
              Plans drawing are given! πŸ˜„
              3D objects are made with another prog πŸ˜’

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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                Mike Lucey
                last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 09:52

                Pilou, I can't find what 3D app is used for the 3D Sugar model maker! Any idea?

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                  Mike Lucey
                  last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 11:15

                  @coronel said:

                  This one is more ecological.

                  Yeah Coronel it looks very much so! I would like to get one sometime as I would have some work for it BUT my wife would blow a fuse if she saw me stuck in the middle of all the bits and pieces of the kit.

                  Still Christmas is not that far away πŸ˜‰

                  Mike

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                    pilou
                    last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 11:34

                    As say here

                    @unknownuser said:

                    Software

                    There are several different layers to the software needed to control a three-dimensional fabricator, and they are implemented in our system with a variety of different techniques. We begin with a 3D model generated in (or imported into) POV-Ray , and then render the POV-Ray image as a set of two-dimensional bitmaps of slices through the image. The bitmaps are generated in such a way that they directly represent which points will, or will not, have the printing medium fused. We then take the bitmaps and use them to "draw" with our hot air gun at all of the black points on the bitmap.

                    Here is one of our 3D models, along with one of the generated 2D bitmap slices through that object:

                    You can download the 3D model, both the POV-Ray document, the rendered and sliced versions here . (53 kB ZIP archive)

                    So any 3D prog can be used if you can import the file format in Pov Ray!
                    I suggest you TopMod but I doubt that it can be export to Pov Ray 😎
                    and more scientist k3Dsurf 😎
                    K3Dsurf has direct Pov-Ray Inside!!!
                    All free πŸ˜‰
                    And of course SU πŸ˜‰ (I doubt) πŸ˜„

                    But as the machine want Bitmap "slice images" black and white you can in fact use any prog 3D! Even SU and TopMod πŸ˜‰
                    It just some tricky saves / export 2D prog slice surfaces
                    I believe that SU has a slicer plug πŸ˜‰ Slicer3 by TIG or modify byAsteronimo
                    no really difficult things (because Pov is not an easy thing πŸ’š

                    But I suppose you will not near to have the sugar engine so...all that is conceptual for us πŸ˜„


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                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 12:07

                      I don't have any use for one [yet] BUT I really want one too... gadgets... πŸ˜„

                      TIG

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                        EscapeArtist
                        last edited by 8 Jul 2009, 15:35

                        I've been wanting to build a home made CNC machine for a while, a rep-rap too if I could find one with a good enough resolution...

                        Anyway, the "printer" up there reminded me of this home made kit: http://buildyourcnc.com/blacktoe.aspx

                        Looks like a lot of fun.

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