For all you engineers out there

CyPride

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Check this out - a 3D printer - Jay Leno is showing the one he has in his garage.

Pretty cool.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvzcGdZsTc]NextEngine 3D Scanner at Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube[/ame]
 
One of my clients (Strstasys) is the leading manufactures of 3D printers. They are growing like wildfire and selling their printers to almost every high school and college in the nation. I really think it won't be long before everyone has one in their home.

If you don't have something at home you need, just go online, buy the design/drawing and print what you need instead of having to rerun to the store to buy it....would be awesome
 
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The printer part has been around for a long time. They have had rapid prototypes of CAD models out of a variety of materials from ABS to cornstarch. The new part of this (at least to me) is the scanner to model.

A couple of issues that I see are for metals you can create a casting, but how do you know what kind of treatment was put on the original part for hardening? If you need to harden or machine an edge, you need to account for that with extra material. They didn't mention on the part that Jay was holding how they took the plastic part, created a metal cast from that, yet still were able to machine the surface without ending up with too little material.

Also, I'm calling BS on the adjustable wrench. No way was that scanned and then "printed". That can be done from a 3D model, but that's been able to be done for a while.
 
The printer part has been around for a long time. They have had rapid prototypes of CAD models out of a variety of materials from ABS to cornstarch. The new part of this (at least to me) is the scanner to model.

A couple of issues that I see are for metals you can create a casting, but how do you know what kind of treatment was put on the original part for hardening? If you need to harden or machine an edge, you need to account for that with extra material. They didn't mention on the part that Jay was holding how they took the plastic part, created a metal cast from that, yet still were able to machine the surface without ending up with too little material.

Also, I'm calling BS on the adjustable wrench. No way was that scanned and then "printed". That can be done from a 3D model, but that's been able to be done for a while.

homer - i too would like to see that wrench made, first hand - as i am pretty skeptical myself.
 

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