Ogre head has been materialised!

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Ogre head has been materialised!

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Recently I had an opportunity to produce any 3D model in plastic via rapid prototyping (thanks to the company I work for). I spent about two hours to convert ogre head model to acceptable format. For that purpose I had to convert it to xml-format and then to write a tool in C# to convert it to text based stl-format. And here it is on my desk now.
The price of the production was about 150 euro, but fortunately I haven't got to pay ;)

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The bottom part is 70x70 mm.
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That's awesome! Though can you give some idea of physical size?

Also, I remember reading about a machine like this which would print using chocolate :D
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Cool work. I'm waiting for the time 3D printer become affordable for everyone ;) .
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It´s very awesome :shock:
It has been made by a printer with 3 lasers ,no?
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How long did it take to sculpt / print it (not the time you needed to convert the formats)?
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PolyVox wrote:That's awesome! Though can you give some idea of physical size?
The bottom part is 70x70 mm.
PolyVox wrote:Also, I remember reading about a machine like this which would print using chocolate :D
hm, I'd love to try such a candy :)
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spacegaier wrote:Cool work. I'm waiting for the time 3D printer become affordable for everyone ;) .
It's almost become the truth. Our company is about make it available for every one via the Internet. Of course not free of charge :)
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Juan wrote:It´s very awesome :shock:
It has been made by a printer with 3 lasers ,no?
it's made by printer with only one laser. it produces the model slice by slice.
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spacegaier wrote:How long did it take to sculpt / print it (not the time you needed to convert the formats)?
But it's difficult to say how much time takes producing the model but it was ready the next day I posted the request (I had to work with the system like a real customer).
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Cool.

Did you look at AccuTrans 3D? I think it converts to STL. http://www.micromouse.ca/
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One day I'll build my own version of the CandyFab 4000: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab
3D solid model printer using sugar, which costs only about $500us to make.
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reptor wrote:Cool.

Did you look at AccuTrans 3D? I think it converts to STL. http://www.micromouse.ca/
honestly I didn't spend any time on searching the converter, it seemd to me to write it would be faster to write own one (moreover, it was a good practice in Linq) :).

But next time I'll deffinitely have a look at the tool you mentioned above, thanks!
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Kojack wrote:One day I'll build my own version of the CandyFab 4000: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab
3D solid model printer using sugar, which costs only about $500us to make.
wow, cool machine!
Good luck with your own version!
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I'd like to see more pictures! Looks very cool.
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Ups. Not a recent thread, sorry.
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