Print your own V6

[simonrockman]

Ford has posted a model of their V6 block on Thingiverse

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:40257



Simon

[Slow]

Do you need anything special to print it?

Just a regular printer?

[Smitters]

That's cool as.

Because normal printers only work in 2D, I think you need two printers, one placed longitudinally and the other horizontally, so the outcome is 3D.

[The Badger]

Slow said:

Do you need anything special to print it?

Just a regular printer?

Yes. A regular 2D printer and magic beans.

[Soovy]

Slow said:

Do you need anything special to print it?

Just a regular printer?

You need a 3D printer.

Makerbot or something.

[Slow]

The Badger said:

Yes. A regular 2D printer and magic beans.

Heh i wondered lol.

Who the fk has a 3d printer :P

[Captain Muppet]

Slow said:

The Badger said:

Yes. A regular 2D printer and magic beans.

Heh i wondered lol.

Who the fk has a 3d printer :P

Lots of UK schools have them. And everywhere that does rapid prototyping. And lots of people involved in product design.

Getting a 3D printer is easy, the tricky bit is convincing an OEM to give you 3D data of their car parts.

[Slow]

Captain Muppet said:

Lots of UK schools have them. And everywhere that does rapid prototyping. And lots of people involved in product design.

Getting a 3D printer is easy, the tricky bit is convincing an OEM to give you 3D data of their car parts.

Are they expensive to get something made up?

[hairykrishna]

Shapeways will do 3D printing on demand, in lots of materials;

http://www.shapeways.com/

[K12beano]

3D Printer leader is http://printin3d.com

They're about the same price as a laser printer was twenty years ago! http://www.resins-online.com/ecommerce/product/3d-...

[Ozzie Osmond]

Is that the engine from Blue Man Group's tour bus?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOLBn8GKBlA

[GadgeS3C]

2D printer, lots of paper, scissors, glue - old skool

[350Wedge]

Fortunately I have a 3D printer so I shall be printing it in the morning

If you keep it at original scale it would take 24 hours on our printer so will scale it down a bit. It would also have used a grand or so's worth of digital material!!

Build now should take about an hour and a half

[simoid]

The Badger said:

Yes. A regular 2D printer and magic beans.

Known up here as "tenner beans".

[Noesph]

Smitters said:

That's cool as.

Because normal printers only work in 2D, I think you need two printers, one placed longitudinally and the other horizontally, so the outcome is 3D.

I wish.

[simonrockman]

Slow said:

The Badger said:

Yes. A regular 2D printer and magic beans.

Heh i wondered lol.

Who the fk has a 3d printer :P

I do: http://www.chocablog.com/features/3d-printing-choc...

Which is why I was trawling thingiverse in the first place.

[K12beano]

simonrockman said:

Slow said:

The Badger said:

Yes. A regular 2D printer and magic beans.

Heh i wondered lol.

Who the fk has a 3d printer :P

I do: http://www.chocablog.com/features/3d-printing-choc...

Which is why I was trawling thingiverse in the first place.

You PRINT in CHOCOLATE????!!!!!

[simonrockman]

350Wedge said:

Fortunately I have a 3D printer so I shall be printing it in the morning

If you keep it at original scale it would take 24 hours on our printer so will scale it down a bit. It would also have used a grand or so's worth of digital material!!

Build now should take about an hour and a half

Please post a photo of the result, what printer do you have? At that price I guess it's resin not ABS so you should get a decent finish.

It's very cool that Ford are posting free models, they've done a couple of Mustangs too.

Simon

[Meths]

I could print this at Work or University.


I just need to find a valid excuse.


Edit: I could make it into a v12.

hmmmmmmm

Edited by Meths on Monday 7th January 20:53

[350Wedge]

simonrockman said:

Please post a photo of the result, what printer do you have? At that price I guess it's resin not ABS so you should get a decent finish.

It's very cool that Ford are posting free models, they've done a couple of Mustangs too.

Simon

I'll post up a photo tonight, the machine is running and printing it now.

We have an Objet Connex 350 which is quite a few ££££££

Currently have resin in there but we do have ABS as well but that would require a material change which in itself isnt cheap!