A Very Interesting 3DP'd Part!

[Kurt]

So - an interesting little story...

I was downstairs this morning at work - to meet with a guy who is a major user of the system. After chatting with him, I go to leave his desk space - I look down - and on the floor he has this box with these colored plastic pieces. I'm looking at them - and he's like - Yeah - they are 3D Printed!

I picked up one of them, and by looking at the sides - I could NOT Tell it was 3D Printed - I SWEAR I could not see layer lines. I looked at bottom - and it did have telltale texture from a textured build plate. But, upon looking at the Top of the part - I could then see some of the lines. 

So, not only was the part rather Interesting looking - I found it VERY Interesting to see a 3D Printed part used in a business process. It's some kind of customer or biz partner - and then ship small parts to us using these 3D Printed items. Consider it like a carton of eggs. 

Now - honestly - I camera on my phone kinda SUCKS. That being said - here's an up close shot of the side:

And a normal shot showing the whole part:

I suspect it was printed on a CX1 using maybe like a 0.08mm layer height. At least that is my guess...

-K

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

So Kurt, you’re sneaking around other people’s desks at work and looking at their stuff? Really?

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Andy - WHY Would you accuse me of Sneaking???

I specifically wrote -- " I'm looking at them - and he's like..." - and that's when HE Speaks to me & says - "...Yeah - they are 3D Printed!".

I'm hoping you wrote that comment here as an attempt at Humor!

I bring in 3D Printed items to work all the time - and It gets displayed in the IT office area - and I constantly get to do "Show & Tell" of my projects. I've gotten to be REALLY Good friends with this dude who had the plastic parts at his desk. The parts really caught my eye cause there were like 4 of them in a box - and each were different colors! Then one I showed the pic of here - he actually told me to take it - and I could have it!

So there you have it...

-K

[Bryan Eckert]

This seems to me to be something that would be a lot more cost/time efficient to just have injection molded or vac formed. Unless it's for a very small quantity.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "3D Printing Tips and Tricks" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 3d-printing-tips--...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/3d-printing-tips--tricks/d6a1d725-d7c9-468c-b048-aa77356a9748n%40googlegroups.com.