3-D Printers: Everything from Mag's to Receivers

[Hoosier]

Anyone here playing with 3d printers?

http://botmill.com/

Prices are about $600 for a parts kit, more for an assembled one. Lets you print a 6x6x4 inch area with a variety of heated plastics, including ABS (think Lego). You can control the edge density as well as the fill density, to control how "solid" and heavy your objects are. Materials are about $70 for 5lbs.



This one is building the parts for another unit.

I know at least one or two guys on here have access to real CNC machines.

H.

[Byte Stryke]

Anyone here playing with 3d printers?

http://botmill.com/

Prices are about $600 for a parts kit, more for an assembled one. Lets you print a 6x6x4 inch area with a variety of heated plastics, including ABS (think Lego). You can control the edge density as well as the fill density, to control how "solid" and heavy your objects are. Materials are about $70 for 5lbs.



This one is building the parts for another unit.



I know at least one or two guys on here have access to real CNC machines.

H.

Skynet?

[Tim K]

Funny, we call our CNC router a big printer. It just happens to print 3D in wood. I've been working on some new software that allows us to do some more interesting 3D machining. Pretty cool stuff.

Here's a vid:

[Hoosier]

Funny, we call our CNC router a big printer. It just happens to print 3D in wood. I've been working on some new software that allows us to do some more interesting 3D machining. Pretty cool stuff.

Here's a vid:

That's neat stuff, Tim. It reminds me of this kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...uter?ref=video

Your router is designed to cut all the way through a sheet of wood, right?

H.

[Tim K]

Yup, it cuts through 3/4" material at 500 inches per minute. We just did some programming to cut some curved drawer fronts, and it did quite a job.

[Blowby]

Printed the upper and lower on my Dimension 3D Printer.




As far as CNC's I program with hyperMILL which runs inside of SolidWorks, Inventor and Think Design.
Links:

[Hoosier]

Corrected the youtube links for you.

Now this is exactly what I was getting at. Are those 100% size upper/lower? Do you need to worry about FFL license if they are?

SolidWorks is exactly the software I'm looking to try. I imagine the learning curve is steep. I have some ideas about solving the problems I see with the AR, and being able to test a design in software, then print a scale 3d model to test function, before sending it out for CNC milling from a solid block at 100% by someone with all the right paperwork.

H.

[Blowby]

Just not able to get the YouTube link to embed.
[Mod Note: Got ya covered!]
The parts are to size and I sectioned the lower on one printed part to access the trigger group for my trigger jobs. Makes it much easier

[fitz19d]

From a Colbert episode, a little less serious but maybe better for some uses I saw this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/22992...swho_knew.html



I'm hoping to find something that can recreate fairly hard modeling plastic, kind that cuts semi easy with a knife but otherwise sturdy to try and reproduce something like these:


And come on spru's like this




If I'm really lucky I'd like to duplicate smaller detailed parts/sprues like this one.

[Hoosier]

Is that Warhammer 40k?

The botmill.com people say they'll send you a free printed sample to get a feel for the material, I signed up before the holidays. Apparently there are several choices of plastic and nozzle size, depending on how fine the work you want to do is.

You would have to have 3d model files for those templates. There are several home-brew solutions to generating models based on physical objects, but I have no idea what level of detail they're capable of.

H.