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3D printing coming to your town soon....

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Posted by nvrr49 on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 5:14 PM

The next generation for home 3d printing.  It made goal in two minutes.

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kudo3d/titan-1-fastest-tallest-print-high-res-sla-3d-prin

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Posted by Bayfield Transfer Railway on Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:27 PM
Hmm... Milwaukee Road style all weather windows, here I come...

Disclaimer:  This post may contain humor, sarcasm, and/or flatulence.

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Posted by nvrr49 on Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:46 PM

Some items I designed and sent to shapeways.com for printing.  These were printed in FUD.  More pictures and details can be seen at: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/04/latest-shapeways-prints-ho-scale.html

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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 3:54 PM
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Posted by Kyle on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 3:13 PM

[qoute]Odd, it doesn't do that for me. The new posting box doesn't have the options for inserting photos, links, and other stuff, so it looks like I'll have to go back to the old copy and paste method. I still use the old [img][/ img] code for inserting photos anyway, so at least that works.[/qoute]

I wish they brought back the old software like the one they use on the other trains.com websites.  I am pretty sure kalmbach knows there are many problems with the current mrr software and they aren't happy with it, which explains why they haven'tchanged the software on their other sites.  

Personally I keep hoping they will go back to the old software, it worked a lot better.

 
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Posted by nvrr49 on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:19 AM

This is the largest print I have done on my printer.  Based on the Bennington State Bank in Bennington, MN.  The basic building took 6 hours and 39 minutes to print, that time does not include the windows and the top sections of the front wall or the foundation.  Details on the it's design and construction can be seen at http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/04/bennington-state-bank-bennigton-mn-in.html

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Posted by rrinker on Monday, March 24, 2014 6:31 AM

 I think these items pretty much debunk the idea that the resolution is too grainy. Those last 3 things were all printed on the home Affinia printer and nor the more expensive units that Shapeways uses? Wow!

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Posted by nvrr49 on Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:10 PM

And now for something in O scale.  Pool table tops, you supply the base.  Details and both HO and O versions can bes seet at http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/03/pool-tables-ho-and-o-scale-just-for.html

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Posted by nvrr49 on Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:27 PM

I did a few N scale items on my Afinia printer for friends.  A small building, an ocatagon barn, patterned after the HO one I posted earlier, and an open gondola load of wire coils.  

You can see the other items at this link: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/02/n-scale-or-just-for-giggles-3.html

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Posted by nvrr49 on Monday, February 17, 2014 4:27 PM

This was the first really good complete building I home printed.  It is an HO scale smokehouse.

more details can be seen here, if interested, http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/09/smokehouse-ho-scale-3d-printed-down-on.html

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Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Saturday, February 15, 2014 11:23 AM

Odd, it doesn't do that for me. The new posting box doesn't have the options for inserting photos, links, and other stuff, so it looks like I'll have to go back to the old copy and paste method. I still use the old [img][/ img] code for inserting photos anyway, so at least that works.

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Posted by hon30critter on Saturday, February 15, 2014 2:09 AM

Darth, and anybody else who wants to make the link work, here is how to do it:

1. Highlight the link. In other words, place your cursor at the beginning of the link, hold the left mouse button down and draw the cursor across the link until the whole thing is highlighted in blue. Be careful not to capture anything else in the highlighted area. Let go of the left mouse button. YES, I'm stating the obvious but if you are a computer dinosaur like me , the 'obvious' isn't always obvious!Smile, Wink & Grin

2. With the cursor on the highlighted link, right click the link and it will open up a menu box.

3. The top line in the menu box will be "Open Link". Left click on that line and voila! you will be taken through the ever amazing place called cyberspace and the link will open!!!WowYeahThumbs UpBig SmileYesBeerDrinksIdeaClown

I have posted this solution to the link problem in at least three other threads. Nobody seems to be listening!Bang Head

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Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Saturday, February 15, 2014 1:15 AM

Well, shoot, quick reply doesn't do hyperlinks.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/227541.aspx

EDIT: Alright, who broke the forum so I can't insert hyperlinks?

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Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Saturday, February 15, 2014 1:14 AM

Speaking of 3D printing, http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/227541.aspx Big Smile

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Posted by Javelina on Friday, February 14, 2014 10:56 PM

Randy's got a point in that good 3-D software is not easy to master. One of the best ways to approach the problem is to offer (as part of a 3-D printing service and site) downloadable proprietary software that is tailored to what the capabilities are. There's a company called E-machineshop that does that. Their CAD progam is very simple (2-D, no "fancy" features) and is part of an engineered system that includes a cost estimator. When I had my machine shop, they were a sometime competitor so I had to learn their system (to interpret and make my own drawings on AutoCad) before I could quote a client. I believe before long a clever 3-D printer will be doing the same thing. It would seem that method would make the process less cumbersome in that it wouldn't let a client/designer do something not possible with the hardware. On screen prompts and auto features would guide the designer to quickly render a file that was satisfactory to them as well as the processes involved.

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Posted by rrinker on Friday, February 14, 2014 3:55 PM

 SketchUp is free, and many of the things you see on Shapeways and other sites were originally drawn using it. This goes back to something I've said before in threads like this, where people say it's 'cheating' to use a #d printer. Well, you still have to be able to draw what you want - accurately. I happen to be pretty good at visualizing 3D from a 2D blueprint, but not everyone can do that. I still haven't matered SketchUp. It's not as easy as some people think to draw up a workable 3D model for the printer - not only is there the drawing itself, but the design has to account for the way the machine operates and be actually buildable. Thre's a skill involved there, and not just drawing ability. You could make the nicest looking drawing around, but it could have features that would be impossible to print as-is on most 3D printers. Then it's back to the drawing board to clean it all up and make it printable.

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Posted by farrellaa on Friday, February 14, 2014 3:43 PM

One of the issues with the 3-D printing is that someone has to make the 3D CAD model first? This is not mentioned often and that would be an additional cost for someone that has an 'Idea' of what they want. I have looked at a couple of free 3D softwares and haven't found anything that really does what I would want. Just throwing this out there for comments.

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Posted by nvrr49 on Friday, February 14, 2014 3:25 PM

One of the Diesels that Rapido made in HO scale, was manufactured starting with a 3d scan of the real thing.  There is a youtube video on how they did it. here is the link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csq451ZbpNs

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Friday, February 7, 2014 8:23 PM

Well, perhaps as this technology improves we may yet someday see a classic 1960s HO scale Eagle-01 bus!

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Posted by nvrr49 on Friday, February 7, 2014 8:03 PM

Javelina
Terry,

The tech's already out there with laser scanning heads and software. One day you'll be able to buy a home scanning head. Hook it up (if it isn't wireless!) download the software. Put you, your friend or subject on the turntable, turn on the scanner and rotate the subject. Instant 3D file. Download to 3D printer and badda bing badda boom, scale model person. 

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Actually, it is already available.  In the November 2013 issue of Make magazine, they had an article on building a 3d scanner large enough to scan a person.  The maker space here in KC, Hammerspace, already has one, and has printed scanned and printed people.  The problem is the resolution when the one is scaled down.  Give it a few years, and it will be available in a resolution we can use.

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Posted by Javelina on Sunday, January 19, 2014 5:34 PM

Naaa, you'll just beam him to Alpha Centauri or somewhere. Maybe reduce him to HO scale. Remember the closing scene in the original "The Fly"? "Hellllpppp Mmmmeeee!!!!!"

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Posted by jecorbett on Sunday, January 19, 2014 12:48 PM

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Terry,

 Put you, your friend or subject on the turntable, turn on the scanner and rotate the subject. Instant 3D file. Download to 3D printer and badda bing badda boom, scale model person.

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Posted by Javelina on Sunday, January 19, 2014 11:46 AM

Terry,

The tech's already out there with laser scanning heads and software. One day you'll be able to buy a home scanning head. Hook it up (if it isn't wireless!) download the software. Put you, your friend or subject on the turntable, turn on the scanner and rotate the subject. Instant 3D file. Download to 3D printer and badda bing badda boom, scale model person. Now you've got the file and software, you can manipulate the "image". You manipulate the full size file and print the 1/87 image. All your mistakes are reduced 87 times.  Move the arms, legs and so on. Change clothing color, hair or skin tone, add a hat. Bigger ears, smaller nose. Mr. Potato Head in 3D. That's the good side of computer power.

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Posted by TBat55 on Sunday, January 19, 2014 7:43 AM

My hope for 3D printing is HO PEOPLE.  I have never liked the quality of those on the market and own very few.

The painting may still be hard, but 3D printing should improve the SHAPE and give us the exact POSTURE we want for specific scenes.

And existing 3D software for people or animals is extensive (think Shreck).

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Posted by nvrr49 on Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:29 PM

 

An HO scale barn I drew up and printed in ABS on and Afinia printer.  I added paper shingles, and the floor inside is a paper overlay from clevermodels.net
More details on it's construction here: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/01/octagon-barn-3d-printed-down-on-farm-6.html
 
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Posted by nvrr49 on Monday, January 6, 2014 10:11 PM

AND I have an Afinia printer, the same one that Radio Shack and several others places sell.  I have too many posts on items I have made with it to list here, but here are a few pictures.  All HO scale.

more on this project at: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/01/shop-building-machinery-shed-redux-down.html

More on this project at: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-house-3d-printed-down-on-farm-5.html

If any of you are attending the Amherst show, I will have a clinic on Thursday morning on my experience using the Afinia printer, and Afinia has a booth at the show.  I have no affiliation with them, just been using a Afinia printer for about a year now, and have built lots of things with it.

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Posted by nvrr49 on Monday, January 6, 2014 10:04 PM

I have a blog with lots of 3d printed items shown, many items I designed and had printed at shapeways, like these lawn mower shop details, and

these lumberyard details.

More picts of the small engine repair shop here: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/09/lawn-mowersmall-engne-repair-shop.html

More lumber yard pictures here: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/07/fsm-barnstead-lumber-ho-scale.html

 

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Posted by rrinker on Monday, January 6, 2014 6:15 PM

 Definitely very light. Have to add a lot of detail by hand to what would come out of the 3D printer to make something like a CMW model. Now, if you just want 'close enough' to fill up closed sided autoracks...

I need to go check out what my friend got from Shapeways - N scale Hall Banjo signals (he models the Reading too, but in the early 1900's and i N scale)

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, January 6, 2014 9:45 AM

Hmmmm...maybe this is the solution to making lightweight, inexpensive autos for those open autoracks.

For those who have done this, what would it cost to make one HO-scale model car, or 50 of them?  And how much would they weigh?

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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