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you can call me the forum fire brigade now Ian

did you get your printer Tom ? Ian

i have joined up to help the ultimaker guys. I have taken out all the spam i can find to make the forum cleaner and also organised some information together. I will be tracking this forum daily. thank you for your feedbac and help. Ian

Daid for all the work you are doing for the ultimaker community, its the least we could give you. Ian

What’s been keeping us busy? Posted on February 10, 2012 by siertwijnia Hi Everyone! Finally some communication again! We have been quiet for a while, not because we didn’t do anything, but because we were so busy with lots of things! Our plan is to communicate better and more! Let me summarize a few points of things we have been working on the last 2 months. New Building Finally we moved out of the studio of Martijn! His house became way too small for all our activities! Also, him and his family deserved to have their house back. After looking around for a building, we found lots of expensive office buildings, but when Martijn found an old abandoned school building, we fell “in love” with it. We agreed with the local government that we could rent the building for a very reasonable price, only when we did the investment to get the building “alive” ourselves. So we had to arrange a new heating system (just in time, it’s freezing outside!), dig a trench for a gas pipe, clean the whole building, fix the leaking roofs, replace most electric wiring, get furniture and computers, install IT equipment and – not the least important – find great people to come and work with us. So please see the fragment below to get an impression of our new “Headquarters”! Production Big shipment coming up! Since we have more space to run production and get it better organized, we try to get ahead of schedule. But this is still hard, because sales are growing very rapidly, faster than we anticipated. The machine consists of a lot of parts, and when a single part gets delayed, it might delay our shipment schedule. At the moment we are awaiting a shipment of electronics, which is holding us back. It will come in at the end of next week, so we are preparing a very large shipment we have never done before! Support We are proud of all people helping us out at the forum and the googlegroups! Without you guys we could never have done what we do right now! We’d like to continue to work on making the Ultimaker a Plug-and-Print machine! Development We have an interesting feature cooking that makes your Ultimaker much easier to use! I hope you liked our update on what we are up to. Groeten uit Holland! Siert, Martijn, Erik And the rest of the team: Harma, Tamar, Bart, Anita, Lindsay, Menno, Vincent, Sander, Aike, Nikki, Marrit, Martijn, Merle, Calliope, Julius, Florian

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Joris For the solo exhibition of Alicia Framis in the Rabobank headquarters Utrecht, the Netherlands, Joris van Tubergen made an interactive installation using an Ultimaker 3D printer. Together with software developer Miguel Jimenez he developed the ‘Screaming Room’: A stand alone installation where the scream of a visitor is instantly translated into a shape printed by the Ultimaker. Without any intervention of an external operator this installation produces unique art pieces by the visitor: For free! The 3D art piece, made of biodegradable plastic, is a gift to the screamer. Joris van Tubergen: “This could be the start of a new type of art: Production Art. Every 20 minutes the installation produces unique objects on site. Art pieces by Alicia Framis, but with an intervention of yourself: The form of the piece of is based on your scream.” Joris van Tubergen – www.rooiejoris.nl Miguel Jimenez – www.fablogica.com Daily Future – www.facebook.com/dailyfuture Alicia Framis – www.aliciaframis.com The installation will be running for 5 months until September 1st 2012.

Awesome Ultimaker printed Quadcopter! A while ago Taylor Alexander 3D printed fully functionaly rotor blades on his Ultimaker for his RC-helicopter. This time, another amazing accomplishment was made, which is supplementary… the “PL1Q Vampire, the 3d printed quadcopter”. Its total weight is just 231.6 g at it is pretty strong, printed out of PLA plastic. The files for this ‘thing’ can be downloaded here! http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:17612 Make sure to watch Peter’s other video’s too. Do you know why I’m so excited about what we’re doing with Ultimaker?! These kinds of responses REALLY get me up early in the morning and enjoy the long ride to our new Ultimaking Headquarters: RepRap has profoundly changed my life. With Ultimaker, the team and I want to give access to this same experience to as many people around the world as we can! After PC’s have changed our lives so pervasively, the power of Personal Fabrication has just been unleashed! Thanks, Peter from Sweden! You made my day! ~ Erik

just incase any one gets schocked. Im just doing a little TLC work for the forum. Getting rid of the spam treads and grouping together some information. if you cant find your favourite tread, try the search button on the top right of each page or just ask me for help. Ian

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well its going to get the big clean out now. We are going to make this forum a lot stronger in the coming weeks ! Ian

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i just found this really nice video made by makerbot showing rough eguations on what are the material costs for small test pieces. really cool video. enjoy. Ian http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... QEngdduCMs

i found this cool example from the reprap people today. we have to start banging out things like this with the ultimaker. Ian

if anyone wants the challenge of printing a archicad STL, here is the link i just uploaded. Ian http://www.thingiverse.com/image:128002

after repairing the model with the detailed option of (close all holes) the model is starting to look very healthy. But for some reason the two back windows and one small round window is closeing up. why does netfabb try and close these windows up like a big whole, when it leaves the others alone ?? Ian

Ok now i have taken out all the internal elements of my archicad model to make it cleaner. saved out of archicad as 3ds. then opened it in cinema4d and exported out as STL file. Opened that up with Netfabb Basic and found open surfaces. Ian

Translation of Archicad Arch Model to workable ultimaker print model. Translation of Archicad Arch Model to workable ultimaker print model. This is the hot topic that I think will keep me busy for many months to come. It is a interesting challenge to get this ready for printing, because there are so many details and pieces of information that are needed for creating planning and building drawings but must be quickly removed to make the print more managable The challenge is to create The perfect work flow between a completed highly detailed arch archicad 3d building model ----- to a clean and effecient 3d printed model with ultimaker. I always thing examples are good , so here is a simple buiiding constructed with archicad. Because this is a arch library building program, we have to build our models using correct market building material and elements. Also i have removed the internal walls, doors, windows and floors and stairs to make the model simpler. all this information for now is not needed for printing. But quick question, would it be possible some day to just print the complete model with furniture, walls, doors, every thing and then slice the model into 3 slices like a cake, so we can open it up and show customers ?? Next question, when i have my empthy house, do i have to fill it some how with supports or one big solid ? as you can see the inside profile of this building would need a little more than a simple box to fit it out. Also I have tried this and it is very tricky to fill out all corners and not start crashing into the window frames and smaller details near the windows.

Solar Sinter 2011 In August 2010 I took my first solar machine - the Sun-Cutter - to the Egyptian desert in a suitcase. This was a solar-powered, semi-automated low-tech laser cutter, that used the power of the sun to drive it and directly harnessed its rays through a glass ball lens to ‘laser’ cut 2D components using a cam-guided system. The Sun-Cutter produced components in thin plywood with an aesthetic quality that was a curious hybrid of machine-made and “nature craft” due to the crudeness of its mechanism and cutting beam optics, alongside variations in solar intensity due to weather fluctuations. In the deserts of the world two elements dominate - sun and sand. The former offers a vast energy source of huge potential, the latter an almost unlimited supply of silica in the form of quartz. The experience of working in the desert with the Sun-Cutter led me directly to the idea of a new machine that could bring together these two elements. Silicia sand when heated to melting point and allowed to cool solidifies as glass. This process of converting a powdery substance via a heating process into a solid form is known as sintering and has in recent years become a central process in design prototyping known as 3D printing or SLS (selective laser sintering). These 3D printers use laser technology to create very precise 3D objects from a variety of powdered plastics, resins and metals - the objects being the exact physical counterparts of the computer-drawn 3D designs inputted by the designer. By using the sun’s rays instead of a laser and sand instead of resins, I had the basis of an entirely new solar-powered machine and production process for making glass objects that taps into the abundant supplies of sun and sand to be found in the deserts of the world. My first manually-operated solar-sintering machine was tested in February 2011 in the Moroccan desert with encouraging results that led to the development of the current larger and fully-automated computer driven version - the Solar-Sinter. The Solar-Sinter was completed in mid-May and later that month I took this experimental machine to the Sahara desert near Siwa, Egypt, for a two week testing period. The machine and the results of these first experiments presented here represent the initial significant steps towards what I envisage as a new solar-powered production tool of great potential. http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/

looks like these guys are getting ready to start selling this printer? should be interesting. Ian http://www.indiegogo.com/veloso3dprinter

some really good tips Diad. thank you. Im not a graphic designer myself but was or am willing to play around with some ideas. Ian

here is one quick one i did now. I cant wait to see some more concepts. Best wishes. Ian

Hi Jelly ! I wonder would it be more preactical to take a good model, split it into sections like a rubex cube. Then with a farm of 5-8 ultimaker printers, run off each section and with a little glue, perfect.. finishes product. Also there would be a lot more control, as when one piece failed, it could be easily reprinted. With this one big wonder printer, one mistake and the whole thing can go in the bin ? Ian

zapped... dead. Thanks Robert. we really need to push this forum stronger and get it tweaked up and going. Thats why its good when the ultimaker guys give a few of us some space to make this happen. Im really happy I can actually help this movement.. a little ! Ian

feel the fresh air of dead spammers in the morning. I have only the power to delete the posts and have gone through the complete forum this morning and killsed very reported spam tread... DONE But i dont have power to remove the spam accounts, but from my experience, these spam bot accounts normally dont come back. just new ones come on line... girrrrr. ahh well atleast we can strart to enjoy some fresh air of a cleaned out forum... Best wíshes and enjoy. Ian

the ultimaker guys have given me MOD rights and im going through the spam reports now. You will notice a lot of rubbish being removed in the next few days. About you not being able to report new posts, let me check that and get back to you on that one. Best wishes. Ian