Saturday, August 29, 2015

3D printing materials: plastics, metals, ceramic, and more - Shapeways

 
3d printing allows for some pretty amazing, intricate products, things that could never be made from casting or forging or just about any other method than via 3d printing.

Only I'm not an expert 3d printer.

But Shapeways is a company of expert 3d printers ready to print up whatever you can dream up in just about any material you can dream up. And they have a page listing all sixteen materials they can print in with good comparisons of their various strengths and weaknesses.


They have a lot of pretty amazing products available, and you can have a whole lot of them printed to order in a whole lot of different materials.

Want a very cool ruler in plastic? A deathly hallows pendant in sixteen different metals? A heart/apple sculpture in what they call sandstone? A $61,662 platinum mosaic egg? Or about ten thousand other things all 3d printed to order...


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  1. Muskaan.S.September 9, 2015 at 2:45 AM

    This is really interesting. I always found 3d printing amazing. and that platinum mosaic egg is just awesome. Expensive though..

    Hastelloy C22

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  2. PHSChemGuySeptember 9, 2015 at 4:47 AM

    Yeah, that's why I pointed out the platinum egg. I appreciate that the site says they can print these things in a mosaic of materials, but I'm guessing the platinum printing isn't getting ordered very often for pretty much anything.

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