Sculptify's 'David' 3D Printer - KS Campaign Soon - Uses Pellets instead of Filament

Sculptify is set to launch its Kickstarter campaign in a few weeks. They will be introducing a new 3D printer that uses something they call FLEX technology. It allows for directly feeding of plastic pellets rather than spools of filament. It will also be able to print in a huge variety of materials. It looks promising. No price has been announced as of yet, but we will keep you updated.

Read more on this at: http://3dprint.com/3940/sculptify-3d-printer/

What do you think?

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They have 3kg of pellets costing as much as 1kg spool of filament. If that's how they expect to charge for the pellets, then I'm pretty sure isn't competitive with other sources of pellets.

I'm curious how they solved the various things that make a pellet-based 3D printing less than practical. One problem is switching materials in a pellet-based system generally means wasting a considerable amount of material. I wonder if retraction is even a practical concept. An extruder screw might not be able to allow anywhere nearly as fast of a retraction as a filament retract, so it seems this might be at risk of considerably more nozzle ooze.

At any rate, I look forward to further information, I do think it pays to avoid irrational exuberance on this type of extrusion.

hmmm, you could mix different colours and have a completely randomly coloured object......

Too many people pre-announcing pre-orders. I think they should just launch and stop talking about launching pre-orders...

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Yeah, this. It's become a very boring playbook perpetrated by trend-happy PR lackeys. And the "preorder" period of a Kickstarter is a month or two anyway, it seems you want to be able to take backings right away rather than say "we'll start accepting backings several weeks from now".

They've announced that their KS campaign will be going live on Thursday the 26th. I'll be anxiously awaiting the price on this. I'd lvoe to have a 3D printer that takes pellets.

Just to update you guys.... The Sculptify 3D Printer has been announced and the name is the David 3D Printer. I know, a bit of a strange name but there is a reason.

3DPrint just did an article with more details - http://3dprint.com/7322/sculptify-david-3d-printer/

Anyone think they will be getting this when the Kickstarter campaign launches?

Six weeks later, and it's yet another pre-announcement of a preorder?

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You can also blame the "media" for giving them the outlet to pre-spam their spam.

Well, something happend to little David on the way to the KS playground. Met Goliath maybe ?

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You can also blame the "media" for giving them the outlet to pre-spam their spam.

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This blog being "the media", I guess.

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Well, something happend to little David on the way to the KS playground. Met Goliath maybe ?

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I'm pretty sure that's a result of their choice of extrusion system. Moving the build plate is easier than moving that extruder system.

I didn't see any answers to my concerns yet. I guess there's another teaser, then the Kickstarter, assuming they answer it at all. I'd love to see them build a part with widely spaced islands on it, to see if they do retraction. I'm thinking they probably don't.

Hey guys, Sculptify has just launched their Kickstarter campaign for their pellet 3D printer, David. The campaign can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...in-3d-printing

More details on the launch can be found at an article I just wrote about the company and the printer here: http://3dprint.com/12407/sculptify-kickstarter-pellets/

The concept is great, but their print quality leaves alot to be desired, and the cost of pellets is now not far off a roll of plastic, I wonder how well it goes mixing pellets?

If they had an example of using the ground up chunks of a failed print, then I would be all over this. But it seems to work with only very consistently sized pellets.

I suppose ease of use with flexible and rubbery materials is a definite plus, but it doesn't seem like enough to set it apart from other printers in its price range.

i guess this printer will be more like a ¨testing¨ machine for future technologis, it wont be the first one out there but i guess the first one to entirely use pellets