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  1. 02-23-2009 01:47 PM #1
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    Part "copier"

    Now this is pretty cool, check out the functional crescent wrench and steam engine done with no assembly...

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  2. 02-23-2009 02:12 PM #2
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    That is really sweet...especially for the price.
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    That and a CNC machine and I'm set for ever...

    That's going to be a nightmare for patent holders...
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    Check out the gallery at their website for some of the projects they've done like motorcycle parts and custom helmets...

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    oh MAN thats COOL!
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    Yep, these have been around for more than a decade.

    The real progress that needs to happen to make functional parts is on the materials front (both in engineering strength of material properties, and speed of "construction"), but those are happening.

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    Quote Originally Posted by luvtolean View Post
    Yep, these have been around for more than a decade.

    The real progress that needs to happen to make functional parts is on the materials front (both in engineering strength of material properties, and speed of "construction"), but those are happening.

    The first demo I saw live was in 99 at a machine tool show and I thought I was witnessing magic.
    Indeed, the technology has been around a while. However, things are moving on apace and about six months back I visited a company that had had some parts 'Rapid Prototyped' in stainless steel.

    Parts of a surgical instrument (think Black and Decker drill), 3D modelled on Solidworks CAD, file emailed to a shop with the protoyping machine, 'grown' the next day and shipped back to the customer. Untouched by hand except to be put in the shipping carton.
    The components looked very good, not perfect but close, and certainly good enough to go in an assembly and be tested.
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    Bose uses something like that in their prototype lab. Watched it for a bit when I was there once. Very cool stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by proto View Post
    Indeed, the technology has been around a while. However, things are moving on apace and about six months back I visited a company that had had some parts 'Rapid Prototyped' in stainless steel.

    Parts of a surgical instrument (think Black and Decker drill), 3D modelled on Solidworks CAD, file emailed to a shop with the protoyping machine, 'grown' the next day and shipped back to the customer. Untouched by hand except to be put in the shipping carton.
    The components looked very good, not perfect but close, and certainly good enough to go in an assembly and be tested.
    Yeah, if you have to make a mold to cast, you might as well go CNC (if it's for minimal production), so the plastic stuff while cool to watch never really got me excited as a "tool".

    But the metals stuff is getting there.

    I will own one of these at some point.
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