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Xmas 2014

Today is the holy night and I want to thank anybody reading this blog for their support and wish all of you AND your families happy christmas. :) This is a small xmas tree which has been printed upside down and is now standing on the desks of my collegues as work. To avoid long printing times and overhangs I printed it that way because a print with ABS & PVA takes approximately 2.5 time longer than this one. At the end I broke of the stand ...

ABS & PVA Print on my Makerbot Replicator 2x

My first 3d print with ABS and PVA as support material. In this video based on images and some live recordings of dissolving PVA in water and a clean 3d object at the end. Just to have said it: This 3d object could have been printed without support material at a equal quality. This is just a test to print with PVA as support and how well PVA will dissolve. The print time was about 3.5h, the PVA filament dissolved in about 2.75h. The 3d print ...

Replicator 2 and Replicator 2x

It has always bothered me, that I can not print with support structures without having to heavily polish the object afterwards and even that it was not always what I expected. To get rid of that problem, I participated in an auction on ebay a few days before and got myself a Replicator 2x. The device arrived yesterday and it is in a very good condistion. Additional to that I ordered some PVA and I am now printing with ABS and PVA. PVA (Polyvinylalcohol) ...

Character creation and new 3d print

A friend asked me to create his mascot in 3d to create a preview movie for him. This character was created in A:M, textured with 3d-Coat and A:M, has been rigged and animated in A:M. I will show more about that later. First of, I want to show this newly printed rabbit. It took about 2.75h to print at 0.2mm layer height using my Makerbot Replicator 2.

Display-Holder

After a few month of storage a display holder was lost for one of the displays of my company. To replace it, I used Animation:Master and my Makerbot Replicator 2 to model and print it. You can see it already: It works in my tests and seems to be capable of holding the pressure without a problem since some hours. This is the 4th prototype of this part till I got the angle right and the size exactly fitting.

Makerbot Replicator 2: Wood filament Print

A new print with a new filament type: Wood. It was really easy to do that with the new adjustable extruder. Adjusted the pressure, used the same temperatures like with PLA-prints and it worked out great. The result smells like warm wood and feels like cork. The rought texture is not a problem with the filament but with the model. It was hard to print even with standard PLA (although it looks a little bit better there) since this has large ...