Found this dragon a while back off of Thingiverse, named Seven the dragon. Just realized my phone has a gif function so I made a stop motion of him moving. I printed him to protect my hoard of trinkets.
Second-Quarter Sees Mixed Results for 3D-Printer Market, as Inflation Concerns Dampen Purchases
HP Inc. Industrial 3D Metal printer.
The second quarter of 2023 saw contrasting patterns in the shipments of Industrial 3D printers, according to the latest insights and research fro global market intelligence firm CONTEXT.
Vendors in the East (such as China) saw strong year-on-year (YoY) growth, especially for shipments in China, while many Western vendors faced continuing reduction of capital…
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Read sum shit about Tumblr scaling back and the writing is on the wall. I remember when two Yahoo execs visited my old job at MakerBot after the acquisition and I told them “just don’t fuck it up”. They didn’t listen, of course… but, I mean, they were playing a losing hand anyway looking for profit from internet savvy misfits. Lasted longer than I expected though. If we are mutuals or ever spoke; if it doesn’t end up working out, you can always get at my email
I think people get confused when I say "accessible" in terms of price when it comes to specialized machinery. I don't mean "cheap" or even necessarily "affordable by the majority of people". I just mean "feasible to purchase as an individual as opposed to as an investment in capital for a business".
For a long time, computer based cutting machines, 3D printers, lazer cutters, sublimation printers, etc were all essentially manufacturing equipment not really available to the individual consumer. Now we're seeing more "home" versions of these machines within the price ranges of people intending to use them for personal use.
A 400 dollar sublimation printer is by no means "affordable", but the existing industrial counterpart which was the only option for a long time is often closer to 2 or 3 thousand. 400 is feasibly within the price range of an individual not using it for a business.
And, as these things become available to individual consumers, we see refinements of the consumer versions of them and competition in the market, which drives prices down. We're already seeing a lot of competition popping up to Cricut and loosening their chokehold on the cutting machine and htv vinyl markets as those become more and more popular with home crafters. Same with companies like Makerbot and 3D printing.
"Accessible" in this sense doesn't mean "affordable by the average Joe" so much as "feasibly obtainable by something other than a business", which is the first step to becoming the former.
When you're designing toys/collectibles/etc, how much clearance do you give the parts that are going to fit together, like the arm sockets on the Prize Creatures? I did a few in Tinkercad and printed them on my local library Makerbot and had a lot of trouble with things parts to fit snugly but still moveable.
It depends on the pinter when it comes to 3d printing. The standard that works with Shapeways stuff is typically tapering the tip of a peg to 99% and tapering the base of the peg and the entrance to its hole at 101%, assuming a 5-8mm peg.
For home printers, you kinda have to tinker with things to figure out the tolerances for your materials, and finishing is often required because parts sag slightly during curing (in the case of resin prints)