3D Printer..... that's right!

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Wow, that's pretty bad ass!

[sleepydsm]

There was a 3D printer at my technical college a few years ago... It was neat!

[tpunx99GSX]

At the last company i worked for we had 3 - 3d printers.
We had 2 Zcorp 310s
and one Zcorp Spectrum z510s. (our main one)
Basically we mainly used it for prototypes. We had them sitting for over 5 years without working and i spearheaded the project to get the Z510 working again. Ended up having to clear out all of the lines, add new printer heads, and new nozzles. Our Z510 would print color. You can basically take any object from autocad and such and load it in there.

[Kracka]

Wow, pretty amazing that wrench and engine actually move like they are supposed to!

[tpunx99GSX]

Wow, pretty amazing that wrench and engine actually move like they are supposed to!

It basically works like an ink jet printer (ours actually uses print heads from an HP printer).
imagine printing off 1000 sheets of paper each as a layer of a model. Then you put all of the pieces of paper together and where there is ink is the actual model. These printers use the same logic, except instead of paper it uses a dust (like corn starch) and instead of ink it uses binder. it basically prints an image, then covers the image (like a blank page) and makes another image. and in the end the binder material creates a plastic model.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTXFIW1_2c0 this is a demo of the printer we had.

[TkrPerformance]

wow