As badly as I love the idea of a larger printer- I also realize that it scales not just size, but time. Any serious print on a huge printer like that would take weeks to finish- which is weeks of time to screw up. I can't even imagine having a print fail at 16 days in with 30% left to go.
@Russell White I can't wait until the tech gets to the point where we 'don't' have to wait multiple days. Until then I am hesitant to spend money on large printers. I am more into functional prints, so it's usually easier/faster to large part using different methods at the moment..
Just dabbled with this filament. I really like it so far, but have had some warping issues. Been tweaking settings to get it just right though. Printed with red, blue, and yellow so far. Edit: I really love and support them using cardboard spools. Huge deal for me and should become standard. Love being able to recycle these spools.
I believe there is a concrete printer that prints houses current in operation in the US. If you were to look at the route it has taken through the world, I'm sure you will find a Benchy monument somewhere unexpected.
Bang! So cool. Again, keeping with the trend of these companies having open materials support is fantastic. I can only imagine some of the materials that will come in the next decade (is that too long?) and be "the printer companies works on a better printers" while "the material companies work on better materials" instead of trying to do two hard problems at once. Raj and LuxCreo is getting a step up. I wonder if there was anything special about the resin printer they made.
Hi Joel, I'm a student at UW Seattle and I just found out that there's a 3d printing club. Waiting to attend an info session but odds are I'm going to join since I love 3d printing. I started printing last December and I've loved it ever since. I'm very excited to meet more people interested in 3d printing and to see the 1 meter by 1 meter (i dont know the height it goes to) 3d printer that they built themselves and to hopefully get to see the titanium 3d printer that UW has that the club is trying to convince the professor to let use
@@3DPrintingNerd That would be amazing! Once I get more information myself, I can talk to the senior members and maybe we can figure something out. Thank you for responding, and I hope you have a great rest of your day :)
The thing that has impressed me the most is the crazy drop in price for these large industrial machines, yes thry are still expensive but only 5 years ago you would expect to pay 3 or 4 times what they cost now for the same capabilities and probably less accuracy to boot. The industry is booming and it's so good to see Now I can't wait for a company to produce a viable home based and affordable SLS platform with built in cleaning station, now that would be something Love the vids, thank you for making them
More small machines means you can produce the same number of parts in the same time as 1 part. You also can still have parts if one print or printer goes down. There are trade-offs
@@3DPrintingNerd I was commenting on rapid’s reply about manufacturing many parts on 1 bed for a week as if it was a good thing. The odds for a huge print isn’t a typical thing and you can always print sections to get the part made in a fraction of the time and connect them if your rapid prototyping for concept anyway. The one time you need a single print that big you might be better off outsourcing or be glad you have that printer. I like large printers like the cr10s5 for those once in a blue moon projects but I can’t afford that one for 60k. 😆
We have a Bigrep studio G1 at work, the print head cooling is badly design, so when printing PLA the filament is jaming due to heat creep. Apparently they know the issue but do nothing... Their advice : go for proHT instead of PLA it is only twice the price...
Can you melt filament and reuse it? Essentially recycling your own stuff? It would be so cool to make something and then when you get bored of it, just melting it down and reusing it.
those machines are tiny, we have machines at work that have 30x60ft print beds with an 8ft Z! whats really cool is they print ABS in a .5 in nozzel and then come back in after to finish with a 5 axis gantrey mill on the same machine. the 100ft model is being set up now next to it...
It's really neat to see the industrial machines having prices that aren't astronomical. I mean sure, home use prices they are not, but when a manufacturing company can actually think about how the machine will pay itself off in a couple years, or heck in some cases, months - that's fantastic.
Great show, I'm new to this hobby and I'm hooked 😀. Your videos inspired and helped me get my printer, a Flsun QQS-Pro which has worked solidly for 5 weeks now so I'd like to thank you for your videos.
If you’re going to try for a scale like that, you’d be better off with a different technology, like SLS or HSS, or maybe even polymer binder jetting like VoxelJet does. With FDM, you’ll either need a nozzle big enough for a K’nex rod to fit through, or a full sized build would take so long that my beard would turn gray and my scalp would go bald. Edit: Fixed typos.
You're right in some cases, but there is a demand for large scale FFF machines, so there must be cases where these are the preferred manufacturing method, right?
@@luke_fabis In general FDM is still cheaper than SLS. But mostly handling of materials and post processing are a lot easier and don't require a full workshop to handle powder and all that. Printing time requires to find a balance between higher resolution and speed.
At last! A shoe that fit's the foot, instead of the foot having to fit the shoe! (No adding extra socks or pads inside the shoe.) And you can customise it, I would guess eg for a hiking shoe in cold weather, you want to wear thick swollen socks, so you could allow for the extra space. Less blisters!
I'm one of the few people that can say they've been inside a 3D printer. It's wild. Btw great panel you held at RapidTCT, it was a great watch with great speakers
Wow those printers are next level Joel :) ps patron supporter as well ;). Loving the videos I been streaming the fails and success of my creality printers the latest cr30 is hard work :)
I hope that luxcreo will realy come up with that New Kind of shoe production with argueable costs/prices.. Because many people do not have, fit the industrial Standard foot.. Where to make 3dscan of my foot? Orthopädie doctors? Shoe Shops? Maybe.. Which shoe models will be available?....
Over 2 years ago I saw a service at my local Costco already doing this. You put your foot on a pressure pad, converted it to a design and printed it right there. It took a few hours to get the finished product. The insert was soft and flexible just like you see here.
Reminds me of being a kid in the 1950's you could get your feet X-rayed in a local shoe store and see where the toes fit in the shoes you were trying on. Much later they realized how much radiation you were exposed to
The steering wheel puller from Parmatech for the USMC, why did they go to additive manufacturing? I'm not a machinist, but unless it has to be EXACTLY that shape, it looks like a piece of cake for a fab shop to prototype and send off to a CNC shop.
As good as 3d metal printing is that part for stearing wheel tool is so simple to make on a lathe with driven tooling you could knock one out in minutes, just because you can print it doesn't make it cost effective but if you want a really intricate part with swirling internal cavities then yes they are mind blowing machines, I did some trials in edm wire cutting parts into sections to see inside the prints and wow it puts tool macking to a different level.
You need to understand that 3d printing is not about being better. Its being efficient. If I would ask for you to make 20 of those parts you could crank em in a day/two/three. While that guy literally just needs to press 3 buttons and after a day it comes out like bread from the oven.
@@Tomas970506 the metal printing machines cost a fortune and no way can they produce a part like that for the price he said the powder volume maybe but not print time and heat treatment, I know people who have parts made because I do finish maching on them.
@@3DPrintingNerd I have basically climbed inside, gotta clean the bed somehow. Sweeping the bed with a broom is weird. I had to basically rebuild the extruder with e3d volcano and custom heat block to work with the dual heater cartridges, so I could print carbon fiber nylon, it’s the main thing we print.
Q: How many century will it take to print a one meter cube at 20% infill at 0.1mm layers? A: If the print don't fail before the end (highly impossible), it will take about a year 24/24 7/7. If you set it to 0.6mm instead of 0.1mm, it will take you about 2 months non stop. I don't understand that non-sense? What is the target market of this monstrosity?
TBF, planting trees doesn't make the material itself environmentally friendly. Everyone can plant trees and claim that their product is now environmentally friendly. It's a big problem with PLA. It's marketed as biodegradable but there are barely any facilities that actually compost it. And recycling plants aren't interested in it. In the end it'll end up in a landfill, hopefully incinerated before. If it lands in the ocean it'll stick around just as long as other plastics. I d say the main advantage of PLA is that it's not made from dinosaur juice. I dig the cardboard spool. This should be standard.
I find it hard to believe that anyone would pay $60k so they can print 100 objects at a time with a single nozzle on a traditional FDM machine. That sounds like the definition of hell…
Problem becomes cost per part ... 1 week in a $60K machine, floor space, electricity, backup electricity, plastic and the occasional mis-print makes this a no go for 99% of printing projects.
@@3DPrintingNerd ... What I'm saying is, at $60K ROI becomes impossible for 99% of the possible use cases. Which is a great shame. I've got a CR10Max, 450x450x470, almost half the volume, shipped and ready to go for $950. Why are these machines this expensive ... I simply don't get it. I bet I could design a 1000mm machine for less than 5K, and an uber luxury version of that. for less than 15K ... and so could you!
I say go for it! Industrial machines cost much more when compared to consumer level machines. I say put in the work and get it designed and bring it to a show. Maybe you’ll get some good feedback? I know you and I could design machines that cost less and have similar capabilities, but I know there is a difference between building one machine and having a business building and supporting machines for clients. It’s a fantastic thought problem.
I made it to RAPID + TCT for the very last day and got to see you speak! It was a great show, I'm enjoying seeing all your interactions and takes with all the booths!
Q:"Are the colours used in the materials part of the material being environmentally friendly?" A: I belive so, yes. YES or NO!?, I don't care if you belive it!
Great video thank you for sharing i love Bigrep amazing machines. Joel if you like large 3d printers would love it if you would check out my diy hybrid 3d printer build. the frame is 3x2x2 meters, not finished yet but very close.
So "eco friendly" because they use cardboard spools and have no clue about the ingredients of the "terra" plastics <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="471">7:51</a> Refill Spools from DasFillament. No need for this marketing BS. Great questions BTW 👍
FDM does not make sense for a slow moving print head with a small diameter nozzle on a really big printer. You've aged significantly before the printer is done. I think SLS is where it's at for large prints atm.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="475">7:55</a> Believing isn't really an answer. Looking at their documents. --->>> *Bioplastics need years to degrade under natural conditions. *Breakdown of an organic compound by microorganisms in the presence of oxygen. Yeah, that's a yes but really a no. So industrial composting really.