Carbon Fiber

[OOC 2]

Hello all,

 

I ordered my first UM3X and it arrives on wed. I also, order with it, the nozzle to print carbon fiber and carbon fiber filament.

 

I was talking to and engineer at my work and we were talking about 3D printing and I expressed that i was excited to be able to print carbon fiber.

 

He basically turned to me and said that this printer can not print carbon fiber and that I would need a 100k printer in order tor print carbon fiber. Is he correct? 

 

If he is, this will suck because I spent the extra money for the nozzle and filament in order to be able to print carbon fiber. Did I just waste money?

 

Thanks.

[kmanstudios 1,120]

Ummm, no...that is not correct.

 

There are many forms of Carbon Fibre printing. But you can purchase CF filament quite readily. I even have some I will get around to printing one day.

 

If you could not, there would be no market for such nozzles and filament.

 

Methinks yer engineer has a bit of a blind spot.

 

And, by the way, there are other printers that print in continuous carbon fibre, kevlar and other fun things that are not much more expensive than the UM3. The build areas are small, but they are affordable.

[OOC 2]

Ok Phew....

 

The way he was talking was that I wouldn’t be able to print carbon fiber parts at all. Thank you for clearing that up. 

I was going to be bummed if he was right because I was super excited to print some carbon fiber car parts.

 

Thanks

Edited February 19, 2018 by OOC

[kmanstudios 1,120]

[kmanstudios 1,120]

It just occurred to me that you should research the carbon fibre filaments out there. It would depend on what type of part you need to make and stresses/temps it needs to take. There are people here who are making car parts and such. I am not sure what they are using.

[OOC 2]

Ok I will look into this thank you.

 

Another thing came to mind.... What about 3D scanners. Are they worth it? Is there a good one out there that wont break the pocket book?

 

Thanks

[kmanstudios 1,120]

That would be what you need to do. This is a fun 3D scanner. Not too shabby, but not really high res either.

[OOC 2]

Ok. I will look into this scanner. Thank you for the suggestion.

[yellowshark 153]

If your budget is under 1,000 eu/gbp/usd then check carefully, very. About 18 months back, so things will have moved on, I was looking for something for us to win a contract, I could find nothing that did not present us with issues and in the end gave up - of course it depends on what you want to use it for. I did look at one which seemed to do the business but that was 20,000+ gbp 

Edited February 20, 2018 by yellowshark

[kmanstudios 1,120]

That is why I suggested the one I did. Nice introductory scanner, but yes, limited. But to get anything appreciable in upgraded performance, the price skyrockets.

[OOC 2]

Ive been looking at them and from what i have seen, even the really expensive ones can only do small objects. Which isn’t really worth it to me to pay all of this money to only scan small objects.

 

Do they make ones for scanning bigger objects like a car rim or a engine?

 

Thanks

 

[kmanstudios 1,120]

That would be the evo series....

 

 

Edit: Sorry...Eva series

Edited February 20, 2018 by kmanstudios