/3/ - 3DCG

>>427836
Allright, super mega fucking stupid question right here: Is this even the right board to discuss 3D scanning/3D printing? I looked around on /g/ and it seemed dead as fuck on the subject...
Looking to make something special for my fiance.
No, it's not my dick.
>inb4 scan her tits
Not that either.

>>403818
I agree with you absolutely when it comes to art, however the extruder types will continue to be useful for non-art applications... As long as the printer has more than one extruder head that uses a specialty print material.

I consider three heads the minimum, having a support material head, body material head and a conductive material head moves a printer back out of the garbage and into essential territory. 3D circuit blocks are fucking amazing things for DIY electronics.

>>403816
Compared to these three, I have to put the Peachy in a separate category close to PLA but not quite. Printing on the Peachy is less like printing a page and more like developing a photo. You need a dark room and a bit of patience (a good grip on the chemistry of photocuring resin can't hurt either), but they've gotten print quality that beats a lot of the SLA machines without the mechanical limitations on the kind of resin it can use (the resins they're advertising are also priced between the regular SLA resin and the PLA filament, by volume).

Also, the thing is $100. (Compared to the $500-$2k range of PLA printers and the $1k-$8k range of home SLA printers.) I pre-ordered one for the absolute hell of it without regret or hesitation. (Doesn't ship till late September at the earliest, though due to fulfilling the Kickstarter backlog and the other preorder backlog on the thing. This waiting is gonna be brutal.)

Extrusion types are like the dot-matrix of the 3D printer world, the cheap ones of this species don't make anything pretty, but they're easy to understand and repair, and the most popular DIY kits. The filament for them is going to remain the cheapest material option forever and there are a widening array of specialty filaments that have interesting properties.

SLA printers are the laser printer of the 3D printing industry... Literally. They give crisp results and print pretty fast, but when it's time to buy more 'toner', expect to feel that pain in your wallet. Also, there are intrinsic mechanical limitations in SLA printers on the kind of properties your plastic can have.

There is a third type that works almost exactly like an inkjet printer, but the process is tightly patented and controlled by Objet, and their machines are in the $10k and up range and require very expensive proprietary resin cartridges. The Objet printers are the kind you occasionally hear about making composite nanomaterials, though. I've seen what these beasts can do and it's the fucking future, man...

>>398059
I'll go ahead and expand on this, Use a 3D printing service for your first few prints, if you find that you're just too impatient and would trade quality for turnaround, then you may consider getting a printer at home.

Also, if you can't make your own models to your liking, then man up and spend money on them. 3D printing was never a concept of "all the cool things for free forever" and if you thought it was, then you deserved to get duped out of your money.

All that said, I've been excited for the Peachy Printer since they had their Column Tests update. All the stuff they did to the thing and it kept on printing.