It was really nice. Alex brought his homebrew beer, and it was really delicious. These are the first two prints we have finished. The left one is the Calabi Yau surface David has wanted to print. Alex was really good at removing supports. I just spray painted with acyrlic overcoat. The right one is a… Read More »
Fusion 360 is free, and handy if you want to make engineering objects. Proved to be really difficult for other things. First, we need the radius of a simplex thin lens of f=4cm. The refraction index of the clear resin is close to 1.5. There is a handy calculator in Hyperphysics for the Lens-Maker’s formula… Read More »
After UV post cure, I wet sanded (water) the coarse marks with 800 grit sandpaper Then I moved to 1200 grit sandpaper, and continued with wetsanding I applied blue buff (proxxon kit, fine?) with cotton tip, at low rotation setting (applied a lot of force here) DO NOT FORGET THE MASK! Finally I sanded with… Read More »
This one is intended for Isabel as a housewarming gift. She requested something with an anatomically correct heart. Printed with 0.025 mm layer step size using clear resin v2. Inside is filled afterwards with the same resin+acyrlic paint, then cured under the sun. When the model is this small, I think 0.025 mm layer step… Read More »
5CB is a common nematic liquid crystal. I printed this decoration for a friend working in the field. The channels are quite wide in order to accommodate the EL tubes. Due to purely vertical orientation, a lot of lateral scanlines appear. The shape made it really difficult to sand the details. I applied matte acrylic… Read More »