Guys that is amazing! We could use it every time we lose a part, or need a custom part!
Sorry, but just really fascinated me…
That is amazin’!! Now we all know where to go! [8D]
At the prices 3D printing costs, you’ll probably be better off buying a whole new kit to replace that part. I did some work with a company interested in setting up a shop similar to this. The technology’s been around for a bit, but has just started to hit the mainstream recently. However, the volume is still not great enough to make this cheap enough for the average consumer.
ditto to that unfortunate fact. you can probably get SEVERAL kits to replace the part. one of my college Mechanical Engineer roommate back then did those for his workshop classes. the professor told me that i couldn’t use it… sigh…
Oh well, hopefully one day us poor modelers will be able to afford this lol.
EDIT: The engine block that is pictured is in 1/25 scale and cost $21.32, ya that’s as much as a car kit lol, but when you need a engine that no other car has, that’s a good deal, at that price, you would be able to custom make a cockpit for half the cost of a resin one…
It’s a cool technology and will probably be used a lot by those with CAD access/skills and the desire to scratchbuild or get masters for resin casting.
I’m a professional designer and I work with Solid Edge and Autocad. Designing any parts would be easy for me. Now, I don’t know how much it could be to print those in 3D but I’m sure it is still pretty expensive. But lets say you need a special part to convert a model and there is no aftermarket part available. You can design it, have it print in 3D, make a mold of it and cast several copies of it with resin and sell them.
Exactly what I was thinking!
EDIT: Anyone know if AutoCAD 2007 has the capability of producing STL files?? I worked with AutoDesk Inventor in school and found it to be a very easy program to work with, but I am downloading AutoCAD and wanted to know if it would be able to do this, and if it is as easy or similar to Inventor.
Forget it. Autocad 2007 is only good for 2D drawings. And Inventor is a pain compared to Solid Edge or Solid Works.
Autocad 2007 is not as easy or worsth than Inventor, you just cannot compare them. With Acad 2007 you have to draw lines to produce drawings, so you need to be a designer. With a 3D software like Inventor, you don’t need special skills or talent, you just have to built the thing in 3D. Like you would do with real metal or wood.
What about using existing scale drawings to produre a whole, say, Panzer III? Or, perhaps, you could have one resin part, and you need, say, six of them - wouldn’t it be cheaper to produce them than to buy six more? Or does it depend on the part?
Then again, you could just cast aother part, couldn’t you?
Ok, then never mind about AutoCAD, I’ll try out Solidworks, anyone know where I could download it??
About the parts, it would depend on the size of the part.
Doncha’ just LOVE technology?
Yes… well most of the time lol.
I downloaded Alibre design and am going to try and design a F-16 airbrake because one, it’s rather simple and two, if it turns out, it should be rather cheap and I would be able to replace the poor one on the Hase. F-16 that I am building 
Now just to figure out how this program works, have not used a engineering program in 2 years and forgot everything lol.
Nope, no stl, not directly. Not quite sure '07 is enough better than '06 to warrant the dollars for that matter–but, I’m highly jaded, going back to ACAD Version 1.83 and all . . .
Now, the “rapid prototyping” resin machines are still pretty dear, and not polite about floor area. The last one I did reasearch on was ‘only’ about $65,000, and was three units each about the size of a 20c.f. refridgerator (you needed to supply 220VAC, air/fume collection, and the $60 grand did not include resin). And, because it was an “RP” machine, the casting dimensions were limted to about 10 x 12 x 8-15" (depending on how much resin was standing “up”).
So, RP will have to wait until I win a ginat Powerball lottery (dang, be easier iffin I bought tickets for the thing . . .)
Now, if you go to a small router-type table, that’s a lot more reasonable, only $6-8000 for a 15x18 table-top unit. Which would give about 12x14x2 working area–once a person generated the G code for rhe router cuts, but that’s pretty widely available code to get.
3d replicators are the wave of the future dude-- i read an artilcle about them that stated in the very near future they will be able to replicate themselves-- do you know what that implies?— awsome— treadwell
Hey guys, I have been working on this since yesterday and have gotten this far…
It is suppose to be the weapons bay for the Avro Arrow. I got blueprints of the plane as well as another HC model and have been designing it. Don’t know how accurate the inside is, but the only two pics of this section that I could find don’t even show missiles, but all electronics so it was not much help.
The only thing that I am worried about with this is the round sides, I have no idea if they are the same when compared to the model, I made the curves 3mm, but I don’t know how to measure that on the kit, if anyone has the kit or knows that would be great!
Anyway, once I finish it, wireing and all, I want to see how much it would cost to replicate, if it is beyond me, well it was fun making, if not, well then I may have a AM part for the Avro Arrow [:D]
What you need is a radius gauge to measure the one on the model. You can find this in every machine shop.
Thank you, I’ll be on the look out for one…
Hey guys, I downloaded the Alibre Design program, (that’s what I have been using) but is there a program that I can purchase that I get forever?? Something that aint $$1000.00 lol.
I hear a lot about Solidworks…
Solidworks is between $ 2 000 and $ 4 000. In any case, you need a pirate version. Which is easy to get. I prefer Solid Edge but Solidworks is more popular in Ontario so you might be able to get it for free very easily. Of course, if you want to do business with it, you’ll have to buy a valid version.