ODDBALL: Liquid 3D Printing Right Out of Science Fiction!
3d Printing just moved up a big notch! Take a look at this amazing technology inspired by Terminator 2!
3d printing just got 100 times faster! This one may be a gamechanger for the technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpH1zhUQY0c
Here is what creator Carbon3D says:
Traditional 3D printing requires a number of mechanical steps, repeated over and over again in a layer-by-layer approach. CLIP is a chemical process that carefully balances light and oxygen to eliminate the mechanical steps and the layers.
It works by projecting light through an oxygen-permeable window into a reservoir of UV curable resin. The build platform lifts continuously as the object is grown.
The heart of the CLIP process is a special window that is transparent to light and permeable to oxygen, much like a contact lens.
By controlling the oxygen flux through the window, CLIP creates a “dead zone” — a thin layer of uncured resin between the window and the object.
AdvertisementThis makes it possible to grow without stopping. As a continuous sequence of UV images are projected, the object is drawn from the resin bath. Sophisticated software manages the entire process by controlling the variables.
~I so want to see a Hive Tyrant emerge from that red ooze…
