Re: 3D printer progress

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "al5502" <telecom@...> wrote:

>
> Graham,
> setting aside gantry movement problems, how does it actually works?
> I mean how the object is being built up?
> How does the printer prints?
> Alex

I'm trying to replicate the Zcorp printers, a binder is printed into a
bed of corn starch or fine plaster and the object built layer by
layer. The powder that does not get printed on to provides a support
and is later brushed off. The model is then later infiltrated with a
resin or a wax to make it stronger. They are mainly for conceptual
models rather than working parts though it is possible to make plugs
to make moulds for cast parts.

www.zcorp.com

Graham