Lots of people visited the 3D printing event during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. A lot of Ultimaker operators printed and showed what they made. It was nice to meet you guys.
30 Ultimakers printing
Joris with his portable Ultimaker on batteries
Harma watch your fingers!
Florian testing a gun
Nice prints Florian
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Love Harma’s machine – that looks great!!
And I just noticed it’s trying to print my vase! lol!
Guys & girls, it was an absolute pleasure to meet you all
Give me one more day and I’m ready with another blog post on techwall.net! There are quite some stories to tell about this event.
Happy printing – Florian
Florian your print of the green dude came out awesome! How long did it take to print? Ultra setting Im sure. Looks killer man. Nice job. I cant wait to get my Ultimaker. I have a ton og cg sci fi creature and mechanical stuff that I want to print in the crazy detailed netfabb ultra settings using the profile you made. I have allot of detail so im going to have to sacrifice time im sure. All weekend long probably eh? Hehe.
@Landis: You’re right with the Ultra profile. It took about 6 hours I guess. I’ve printed it throughout the night. Man, you can’t believe how amazed I was, when entering the room in the morning and seeing the result.
It’s really about content from now on. We need much more high-res models in order to fully use the Ultimaker’s potential
Looking forward to your prints.
6 hours is nothing for that. Awesome. Before I forget I cant thank you, Dave Durant, and the other high rez printing monsters enough for pushing the detail side of things. Right now it seems like the majority of prints I see from fdm kits are functional mechanical utilities which is cool and far more useful, but for a digital sculptor like myself that is looking to build detailed creature prints, your research has been indispensable man, thanks. I got about 10 buddies who I have contaminated with Ultimaker fever who I know are eagerly awaiting to see the quality I get from mine when it arrives before they pull the trigger. Quality is more important to us then the time it takes so im willing to wait all weekend to see a single print. Espiecially since we will most likely sand the print, add more wrinkle detail by hand, make an algenate mold from it potentially, etc. but at the low cost of print materials the only benefit to the mold at this point would be time I guess.
Anyways, aside from R&D, how much tinkering would you say is neccessary to get the ultimaker printing your type of quality assuming I load in your netfabb profiles and crank up the ultra setting? Is the callibration pretty straightforward?
I would take my time with the assembly (probably sth. from 5-15 hours). Try to understand how this machine actually works.
Then you do your initial testing. Easy.
When using Netfabb for a print it should work out of the box. No big calibration needed from my point of view. There’s always space for fine tuning though.
But it’s better to start your first prints with the Standard quality setting, because it’s hard to actually see the first layers in Ultra. Work your way up there over High to Ultra.
Bottom line: It’s no rocket science to print like this. You need to assemble and get used to the machine for a bit, then you’re ready for world class 40 micron prints
Saweeet! Thanks Florian! I dont think it will be hard to take my time putting it together… It will definately be a slow build. Hehe. Im sure I will run into problems but Im looking forward to it. Thanks again brutha!
I really really like the sound of that. I’m EAGERLY awaiting my own machine (still have 3-4 weeks to wait ;( ) and I’ve been a bit anxious that it will take weeks of hard work to get nice detail out of it. Your words are certainly encouraging. As for building the machine… at my pace it will probably take a couple of weekends of hard work hehe.
Is Harma’s machine constructed from a different frame material ?. – perhaps an early model ?.
That one was cut out of acrylic. It’s a much more brittle material, that’s why we don’t sell it like this, but it does look very good! If you don’t intend to move your machine a lot and if you are very careful with assembly (don’t over-tighten any bolts) it will be fine if you make it out of acrylic. But we’re fearful of having to send as many spare parts like BfB is required to do.
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It’s not going to be long before we can send selected objects over the internet (beam me up, scotty!) by printing the parts to be assembled at the receiving end. How cool is that!