3d printing
Hi guys, hope you are all well. Just wanted to introduce my company PD Models.http://www.pdmodels.co.uk/ we recently invested in a high definition 3d printer that we think you may find interesting. We have been working in the rapid prototype game for a few decades now and with this new machine are expanding. the accuracy and detail of our machine really is second to none, you want that delicate skin texture to show in the model no problem. Check out these examples below of what we can do.
So what do you guys think, would love some feedback and we welcome questions.
Keep up the good work and we hope to work with a few of you in the future!
ok here are a few updated prices as a rough giude.
50mm £60
[FONT="]80mm £100[/FONT]
[FONT="]130mm[/FONT] £150
210mm £300
310mm £500
So what do you guys think, would love some feedback and we welcome questions.
Keep up the good work and we hope to work with a few of you in the future!
ok here are a few updated prices as a rough giude.
50mm £60
[FONT="]80mm £100[/FONT]
[FONT="]130mm[/FONT] £150
210mm £300
310mm £500
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PS: Your prints look great btw
(Oh and Robot rocks my socks **thanks for all the hard work dude**)
Yeah, that's not a bad price for this level of finish. This looks like it's mold-ready, which is pretty awesome.
My company is strictly for prototype-quality, hence the price difference.
Looking forward to seeing more prints!
PS try to use spell-check next time, as a person representing a company its a bit sloppy
Cheers for the heads up EVIL
So what kind of printer do you guys use?
Also, how did you deal with the overhangs? Like on the shoulders or those horns? Was it printed in pieces and then put together afterwards?
the machine is a projet 3000HD plus.
What would be your price estimate if the armored knight posted above was printed at 30cm / 12 inches ?
Also, do you handle the full production of a model (like, a few dozen cast copies) or are you just taking care of the initial print ?
Can't wait to see more!
as far as an estimate for a 12 inch model i would say your looking in the regon of £700-800 for the print. you would sertainly need to look into cutting it up into pieces to make it fit on the machine (we have a 8x7x6 inch biuld envelope at that resolution).
at that size you would probly add i bit of post processing also to get it looking really great.
as far as casting we acually specialise in vacuum casting and have done for several year supplieing industrial models to designers. we are a bit new to this type of wotk tho so would probly just take each job as it comes. if its not overly complicated or too small, sure we can do that.
got something in mind?
(SSS means "sub surface scattering" ; it is a 3D rendering term encompassing the different algorithms used to simulate the look of light scattering through an object like skin, was or jade ... Ace was just making a nerdy joke haha)
as its still kind of early days for us with this i wanted to ask your honest opinion on the prices i have stated? im in the minddle of reviewing them to get a decent standard price for basic figures accross a few different sizes.
thanks
50mm £60
[FONT="]80mm £100[/FONT]
[FONT="]130mm[/FONT] £150
210mm £300
310mm £500
i hope these prices are somewher cloase to what you guys would accept, we realy would love to work with all of you !
if any of you have a perticular job you want me to qoute for please dont hesitate to hit me up at lewis@pdmodels.demon.co.uk
another pic to wet your apetite
see ya later guys!
Im wondering at what point does the detail start to deteriorate
Cheers!!
Anyway does your printer work with game models? As in normal mapped? Or does it have to be a high poly mesh?
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high poly mesh only, and the mesh has to be water tight - run an STL check on your model to find any errors. <whoops missed Scruple's post>
I may have to bookmark this since it's in the UK.
you can have intersecting meshes, you just need to cap all the holes
i wouldnt worry to much about files being "watertight" , it used to be a problem back in the day but we have biult a few models with our new machine that had errors without a problem.
zacd- if your talking complete working print electronics and everything then a very very long time. but there is a symple open source reprap printer that can print some of its own working parts, great guy that made that. not really usefull in this setting but werth haveing a look at if your interested.
the bit im most impressed with is the fingers on the hand, i really didnt think they would hold up, i think any smaller and would have lost them, i measured his index finger with my digital callipers and it was 0.37mm thick!
so there you go hope you like
ambershee- think its just my photography skills. will try and get a better shot.
I missed out, $300 for a 3d printer.
i love websites like kickstarter, so many great projects come out of there that normaly would have never got out of peoples sheds!