Jdesign said:

Now adding to the discussion.....

Discuss!

Is that actually a functional part?  That looks amazing, serious weight reduction.

Discuss!

REKIII said:

It is a stratasys dimension dual head printer with water soluable support.  New price was $55K it looks like they are selling between $1500 and $4K depending on age and whatnot.  Mine works, but it would need some maintenance done with the belts and such.  I'd be looking for the lower end of that.

Sucker is as big as a refrigerator though.  Not exactly desktop lol.

Im intrigued. Can you let us know if they are for sure selling it, I am interested.

I assume it looks like this:

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Sucker is as big as a refrigerator though.  Not exactly desktop lol.

REKIII said:

I have 3.  One really fancy but old one, it's pretty much decommissioned probably will go to ebay soon.

The other 2 are much less expensive ABS/PLM single head printers.  They print OK, but not to the level of the fancy one.  Both print better than the example shown on Jdesigns pic.

If you are going to use it to print interior parts you will want to look into the heat capacity of whatever you are printing with.  Interirs can get very hot.  Most 3D printer material melts at a lower temp than molded plastic used for interior pieces.  Interiors can get hot and you don't want your parts getting soft.

What's the one you're getting rid of? Price?

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The other 2 are much less expensive ABS/PLM single head printers.  They print OK, but not to the level of the fancy one.  Both print better than the example shown on Jdesigns pic.

If you are going to use it to print interior parts you will want to look into the heat capacity of whatever you are printing with.  Interirs can get very hot.  Most 3D printer material melts at a lower temp than molded plastic used for interior pieces.  Interiors can get hot and you don't want your parts getting soft.

I'll probably use it for interior pieces mainly. 

Its one of those things I'd like to have because you don't think to use it for things if you don't have it, but when you do you can do some really neat stuff.

The expensive one we had when I was in school was pretty nice. Parts looked better and were much stronger. However, the material to run that machine was really expensive...

There are a lot of different processes and all have different resolution and strength. FDM's are cheaper and tend to have poor resolution, SLA's are what I would suggest to anyone but that all depends on your use case. Formlabs and makerbots have printers I would look into as they are more user friendly. I have about 5 or 6 printers at my work, and the guy that runs our 3D printing department is a big BMW guy. He has built his own printer from scratch and its one of our more capable machines.