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Hope this help as having a 3D model of your favourite item is great. Especially you can like programming iterate through it quickly.
Learning is part of the fun.
I wonder why they needed the laser pre-heater. I can't imagine it is that dramatically more effective than resistive heating. Even if it is, just having a longer pre-heater to make up for it would have to be cheaper. EDIT: Did a bit of research, a major benefit of laser heating is direct control of energy transfer so you can be sure your heating the plastic to the right temperature regardless of how fast its moving t…
I wonder why they needed the laser pre-heater. I can't imagine it is that dramatically more effective than resistive heating. Even if it is, just having a longer pre-heater to make up for it would have to be cheaper. EDIT: Did a bit of research, a major benefit of laser heating is direct control of energy transfer so you can be sure your heating the plastic to the right temperature regardless of how fast its moving t…
It's also nice because they can vary laser power much more effectively than you can vary the temperature of a conduction surface.
Step 1: Buy a 3D printer Step 2: Print a 3D printer Step 3: Return the 3D printer
It's really a game of data transfer speed. How fast can you transfer information about solid vs non-solid into space?
The velocity and acceleration of that printer is very impressive, but maxing out the movement speed of a single physical nozzle is not going to get us where we need to be in the future.
If anyone is interested in collaborating with me, I'd love to talk.
I wonder why they needed the laser pre-heater. I can't imagine it is that dramatically more effective than resistive heating. Even if it is, just having a longer pre-heater to make up for it would have to be cheaper. EDIT: Did a bit of research, a major benefit of laser heating is direct control of energy transfer so you can be sure your heating the plastic to the right temperature regardless of how fast its moving t…
The laser penetrates the filament heating it internally instead of only heating the outer surface. It's near-infrared (808 nm) so it heats the small cylinder of filament essentially uniformly throughout its volume. It's also nice because they can vary laser power much more effectively than you can vary the temperature of a conduction surface. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.05918.pdf
I wonder why they needed the laser pre-heater. I can't imagine it is that dramatically more effective than resistive heating. Even if it is, just having a longer pre-heater to make up for it would have to be cheaper. EDIT: Did a bit of research, a major benefit of laser heating is direct control of energy transfer so you can be sure your heating the plastic to the right temperature regardless of how fast its moving t…
It’s definitely possible that you couldn’t reach the speeds that they are with any kind of traditional heater cartridge. You need a lot of power directly on the filament to melt is at quickly as they are.
I believe it's water cooled but still looks to be using traditional heater cartridges.
How does this compare to Carbon? https://www.carbon3d.com/