Gizmo 3D Unveils Super Fast 3D printers!!

Just last week we saw Carbon3D unveil a super fast 3D printing technology. Now it appears as though Gizmo 3D Printers may have one upped them. Their new 3D printers can print an incredible 30mm high z axis print with a 50 micron resolution in just 6 minutes. The printers will hit Kickstarter later this year starting at just $2500. Perhaps everyone will be able to 3D print with the speed that Carbon3D unveiled last week. At this price, it won't only be for large companies.

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This looks awesome

What i dont like about this is that you can see how well its going until its done.

Man those are gonna be nice!

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Heated vat – The resin is heated to 22 degrees C to make it flow better and provide for a higher resolution.

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That's a bit weird. Even my workshop hovers around the 20c mark.

Somewhere like australia you'd need to keep the machine in a fridge before it could warm up to 22c !

Other than that - very clever, and reasonably priced.

Hi

Thank you for the post

The manufacturer actually recommends 22 degrees C so I didn't want to advertise anything above that. The heater has been designed to heat up to 40 degrees C and it has its own plug in the machine so it won't influence the rest of the electronics. I had my resin at 35 degrees C for 6 months and the resin was fine. Actually the living room gets around 30 degrees during the day, but if I advertise that and people have issues then I might get into trouble because I go against the manufacturer recommendations

Kobus

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Originally Posted by curious aardvark

That's a bit weird. Even my workshop hovers around the 20c mark.

Somewhere like australia you'd need to keep the machine in a fridge before it could warm up to 22c !

Other than that - very clever, and reasonably priced.

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Other than that - very clever, and reasonably priced.[/QUOTE]

Key to making this economical to the masses would be the cost of the resin required to fill the tanks.
This could be several times greater than the cost of the machines.
That is if you had to fill the tanks with only resin a possibility would be to float a smaller volume of
resin on the surface of a denser/cooler liquid?

The plan is to include the tiny vat (as seen in the video) that has a build plate that you can print a 190mm x 100mm item on. The depth is 100mm. I am also planning on including the resin to fill the vat 4L + 1L included in the price of the machine. So when you buy the machine, fill it up and start printing. That is the idea. Looking at the current numbers I will make a tiny bit of profit, but if I can get to sell 100 machines the profit will increase a bit, enough so that I can stop working for someone else and focus just on Gizmo 3D Printers. When the printers launch I want to focus on getting the scanner out there.

I will have multiple vats available, from the micro vat that takes 700ml to the wide vat that takes 8L to the triple vat to the tall micro vat. Then ofcourse you can create your own combinations. The machines are all configurable so that you can change the size of the vat to what you want

I haven't tested the salt water thing yet. I think it might cause issues for my future plans. I am designing a magnetic mixer at the moment. If the salt starts dropping to the bottom and the pigment drops to the bottom and the magnetic mixer starts up then you might start to mix water and resin.

Great great great

I posted information about the beta at http://www.gizmo3dprinters.com.au/

Looks very interesting. Congrats on the exciting reveal.

One issue: For both Gizmo3D and Carbon3D, the use of the term “continuous printing” is a misnomer, as revealed by this part of the article:

… his layers are printed like an animation, without any breaks between frames. The build plate, full of resin, continuously moves downward while this animation plays. Currently he calls this method of printing “continuous printing” but says that “animated printing” might even be a better term.

Of course all animations have short breaks between frames.

how is this project coming along? anyone have one in house yet?

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how is this project coming along? anyone have one in house yet?

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We are getting on the airline, off to CES in Vegas.

Hopefully our second beta tester will be printing in the next 12 hours

Check out our Facebook and Google+ pages.

https://m.facebook.com/Gizmo3DPrinters

https://plus.google.com/116019898771881870892

Is this resin heavier than the Markforged Nylon/carbon fibre construction. We fly Gliders and have been interested in these methods of manufacturing for cockpits unfortunately we dont see many machines capable of constructing something the size of a glider cockpit without costing an arm and a leg. Will you be going into large scale models , and congratulations keep up the good work hopefully you get the rewards you deserve, when are you crowdfunding?

Looking more closely at the video this material seems more like a rubbery soft plastic.

The material is soft when it comes off the machine, but hardens under UV

What size do you need to print? Continuous printing I think might be perfect for your cockpit if you stand it up right. The current projection area for continuous printing is 130mm x 75mm and we can print at 3mm per minute at that size. We will test soon if we can maybe double the size if we print at 1mm per minute. Check our Facebook and other social media pages for photos of prints that we will post soon. We printed a knee and it turned out so extremely smooth. I believe your cockpits could also turn out that smooth

Excellent idea. Can we get working on this? In the meantime, you can do what some folks do with the toilet cistern to waste less water: put large stones in.

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Other than that - very clever, and reasonably priced.

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Key to making this economical to the masses would be the cost of the resin required to fill the tanks.
This could be several times greater than the cost of the machines.
That is if you had to fill the tanks with only resin a possibility would be to float a smaller volume of
resin on the surface of a denser/cooler liquid?[/QUOTE]

One disadvantage of the Carbon method that I haven't seen mentioned is that the model geometry has to be easily drained. My panpipes consist of tubes that are closed at one end. Whichever way up you print them the liquid would stay held inside the tube until the build was complete, or would escape in a rush at the last moment. And there is no knowing how the build platform could handle the extra weight.