3D Printing (NLC)

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3D Printing (NLC)

Post by Fluoxetine » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:33 pm

I took part in a size & shape survey the other week, ran by RGU on behalf of O&G UK - The lad undertaking the 3D scan of me stated that blooming Asda are offering a similar service, and will actually print out a model of you... :shock:

I though he was joking, till I spotted this today: http://www.asda-photo.co.uk/about/ThreeD

Strange times we live in... :damnfunny

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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by rossybee » Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:59 pm

Slightly unnerving, that :shock:
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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by Rag_It » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:24 am

Oh dear....

What a massive vanity project.... Sure it'll be a massive hit though!

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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by jason » Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:01 pm

An indicator of society's unhealthy obsession with vanity these days? I blame Simon Cowell :lol:

I can already visualise the trolleys being wheeled out of ASDA with doppelgangers in them!!!

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Post by rossybee » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:43 pm

Lots of asda Dundee customers look like they've been fashioned from plasticine* already




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Post by Dominic » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:50 pm

Rag_It wrote:Oh dear....

What a massive vanity project.... Sure it'll be a massive hit though!
What are you getting at??? I have had three done of myself (it was hard work holding in my stomach for the scan). Having one fitted as a mascot on the front of the elise :blackeye Bit like a spirit of ecstasy, but more like a spirit of vanity. :roll:
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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by rossybee » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:59 pm

Dominic wrote:
Rag_It wrote:Oh dear....

What a massive vanity project.... Sure it'll be a massive hit though!
What are you getting at??? I have had three done of myself (it was hard work holding in my stomach for the scan). Having one fitted as a mascot on the front of the elise :blackeye Bit like a spirit of ecstasy, but more like a spirit of vanity. :roll:
so what exactly were you doing whilst modelling for the spirit of ecstasy pose? Feeding the geese?
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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by jason » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:06 pm

I wanted a personal facsimile of Brussels' Maneken Pis, but ASDA were having none of it and their security threw me out...


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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by Dominic » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:08 pm

rossybee wrote:
Dominic wrote:
Rag_It wrote:Oh dear....

What a massive vanity project.... Sure it'll be a massive hit though!
What are you getting at??? I have had three done of myself (it was hard work holding in my stomach for the scan). Having one fitted as a mascot on the front of the elise :blackeye Bit like a spirit of ecstasy, but more like a spirit of vanity. :roll:
so what exactly were you doing whilst modelling for the spirit of ecstasy pose? Feeding the geese?
Trying to remove the straight jacket. :roll:
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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by rossybee » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:12 pm

Dominic wrote:
rossybee wrote:
Dominic wrote:What are you getting at??? I have had three done of myself (it was hard work holding in my stomach for the scan). Having one fitted as a mascot on the front of the elise :blackeye Bit like a spirit of ecstasy, but more like a spirit of vanity. :roll:
so what exactly were you doing whilst modelling for the spirit of ecstasy pose? Feeding the geese?
Trying to remove the straight jacket. :roll:
Is that a euphemism? :blackeye
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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by BiggestNizzy » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:14 pm

I find Selective laser sintering / melting fascinating and I would love to get my hands on it for commercial applications. First time I saw it was around 98 back when they used to have a Scottish engineering show at the SECC.
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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by robin » Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:24 pm

We have a small 3D printer in the office - it's a laser-into-bath-of-gunk type; can go down to 0.025mm layer thickness, though we normally print in 0.1mm for basic modelling. It's quite slow also (can take a couple of hours to print something with 200 layers = 20mm thick).

http://formlabs.com/products/our-printer

I would recommend one to anybody that has a commercial need for 3D printing as it cuts down your R&D costs dramatically.

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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by Sanjøy » Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:27 pm

robin wrote:We have a small 3D printer in the office - it's a laser-into-bath-of-gunk type; can go down to 0.025mm layer thickness, though we normally print in 0.1mm for basic modelling. It's quite slow also (can take a couple of hours to print something with 200 layers = 20mm thick).

http://formlabs.com/products/our-printer

I would recommend one to anybody that has a commercial need for 3D printing as it cuts down your R&D costs dramatically.

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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by robin » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:25 pm

I haven't printed anything frivolous - somebody printed a butterfly hairclip (that is the test model that comes with the machine) and a hippo or elephant with articulated snout (didn't work due to using the wrong settings).

So far I've printed off a few prototypes and nothing else. I am open to suggestion for sensible things to print, though the materials are quite expensive, so a 1/10th scale model of the Titanic is not on the cards :-)

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Re: 3D Printing (NLC)

Post by douglasgdmw » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:47 pm

robin wrote:I haven't printed anything frivolous - somebody printed a butterfly hairclip (that is the test model that comes with the machine) and a hippo or elephant with articulated snout (didn't work due to using the wrong settings).

So far I've printed off a few prototypes and nothing else. I am open to suggestion for sensible things to print, though the materials are quite expensive, so a 1/10th scale model of the Titanic is not on the cards :-)

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