Thread: 3D Printer
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Unread 08-06-2012, 20:48
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Re: 3D Printer

I am not going to say its cheap. We buy our material in bulk to keep the overall costs down per cubic inch. If you take into account the time of machining it vs printing might be faster to machine. But looking at tooling, student power, mistakes, ability to produce a part and not be there are all a plus.

We only use one machine, just time our day to switch out the bases to keep the flow of production up.

Not sure what you mean by stability. We do look at how the printer builds to design a part that will be the strongest for that orientation. We also print small test parts to see how we have to adjust sizes of our 3d models to compensate for error in the printer so we get the fit we are looking for.

Tip size I am not sure but I will check.
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