When 3d printing clay, a 5ml syringe makes a handy “squeezometer” to test clay consistency. Just pull the syringe apart, grease the plunger to reduce friction and poke some prepared clay in there. Then steal the kitchen scales and push the syringe down until clay just starts to emerge slowly. It’s very rough but still…
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The power of material use is a combination of physical appearance, its mechanical properties and the solution used for. Clay mixing The best clay to start with is Stoneware clay which needs to be mixed with water depending on nozzle size, print shape and cartridge size you have a wide variety of mixes you can…
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At the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, Nissan suggested an idea at once futuristic and intuitive: Automotive components should be quickly and easily replaceable with the help of a 3D printers. The IDx NISMO concept featured removable fenders that could be hypothetically upgraded with the proper conceptual hardware. One obvious implication was that a tech-savvy track…
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Intrado concept car based on carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) tubes. “Floating” centre console beam connects passenger compartment and powertrain with carbon frame. Hyundai Motor Company, in cooperation with Lotte Chemical, Hyosung Corporation and Axon Automotive, has developed an innovative carbon frame for the automotive body of the Intrado concept car. This innovation is also the…
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Open Source Pellet Extruder Universal Pellet Extruder brings pellet 3D printing close to people. Many 3D printer users are used to buy large rolls of filament, but how about ditching the rolls of filament for plastic pellets?! As always, RichRap wants to maintain his project as part of the open-source community. So, all of the…
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According to EU regulation, for the category of traditional products of extended use, such as wood, natural aggregates, natural stone, limestone, mineral wool, whose importance and value could not be ignored by the modernist trend of the last decades of constructions, there are harmonized European standards for each product which apply to the known EC…
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While 3D printing homes still sounds like something that only happens in science fiction, the technology is coming along nicely. There are naturally a few hurdles to overcome before it becomes commonplace, but most of the pieces are already in place. Companies have developed large robots capable of acting as large-scale 3D printers, and new…
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Clay 3D printing is an art form that for designers, architects and hobbyists to create art and functional objects. There are the designers who create unique artistic forms which could not be created by any other means, by printing in clay, ceramics and composite materials. Cob – a composite material, a mixture of clay, sand,…
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3D Printing Materials Plastics At the moment the majority of 3D Printers, especially the low cost systems, print using a technology called ‘Fused filament fabrication (FFF)’, these printers currently tend to print using one of the following materials: • PLA (Polylactic Acid) – PLA is probably the easiest material to work with when you first…
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