3-D copier scanner video

I know we discussed these a little some time back, but here's a very neat video!

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famvburg
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I want that so bad...

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eyeball

I want that so bad...WANT ONE !!!!

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Mike Smith

That's the same Dimension 3D printer that I was telling ya'll about some

5 or 8 years ago -

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I got a personal professional demo of this printer (ine of our shops was considering buying some of them) and a giveaway copy of a 3D software that you can use to make models to print on it - TC Solidworks. But it will basically print any .3ds format file from about any CAD or 3D program that can output one.

The tabletop scanner is new, though...and a real nice looking one at that -

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The printer starts at around $19K, the scanner is about $3K, so for about the price of a Mini Cooper you could have a complete setup...which ain't a bad deal really - far less that a comparable machine shop...hmmmnnnn...

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Rufus

The thing that blows me away is that it can copy a mechanism with moving parts and the plastic version's parts move as well..."printed" in place. WOW!

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Doug Wagner

Yeah - they demo-d that with the adjustable wrench when I went to the sales pitch...printed one during the presentation. If you can put it together in the computer, the printer can print it out fully assembled and operating.

What I would like to do with one is prototype resin figures - anything I can put together in Poser, Vue, Bryce, AutoCad, TC SolidWorks, etc. and put out as a .3ds file I can print to plastic on this machine...then handwork and use as a master for my resin casting.

The tabletop scanner in the vid is far more precise than the one I saw years ago at the demo...and there's more of that type of stuff out there too. Wanna milling machine, or engraver that'll cut from 3D?

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...and if you wanna cut your own canopy or other flat masks, buy a scanner and a Roland Stika vinyl cutter:

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Just scan your canopy, noodle the 3D model into flat patterns, and let the cutter cut your masks...note the Stika isn't priced much more than a high-end laser printer...it's all do-able. The Roland scanners are pretty expensive (and hopefully even more precise), but I like the open tabletop one just fine - it'd do the job.

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Rufus

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