<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Light 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/11128/light-3d-printing/ Wed, 27 May 2015 07:52:28 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Light 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/97172/#p97172 IanJohnson wrote:

Someone already thought of it- http://makezine.com/2014/06/14/3d-light … d-printer/

Unless you are doing vase mode, you would want a way to turn off the LED during travel moves.  The ultimate application of this would be to use an RGB LED and find a way to make it reproduce a texture map from the model.

Very good idea!
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]]> Wed, 27 May 2015 07:52:28 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/97172/#p97172 <![CDATA[Re: Light 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/96872/#p96872 IanJohnson wrote:

Someone already thought of it- http://makezine.com/2014/06/14/3d-light … d-printer/

Unless you are doing vase mode, you would want a way to turn off the LED during travel moves.  The ultimate application of this would be to use an RGB LED and find a way to make it reproduce a texture map from the model.

Very cool

]]> Sun, 24 May 2015 13:34:09 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/96872/#p96872 <![CDATA[Re: Light 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/96796/#p96796 Someone already thought of it- http://makezine.com/2014/06/14/3d-light … d-printer/

Unless you are doing vase mode, you would want a way to turn off the LED during travel moves.  The ultimate application of this would be to use an RGB LED and find a way to make it reproduce a texture map from the model.

]]> Sat, 23 May 2015 05:43:21 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/96796/#p96796 <![CDATA[Re: Light 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/96795/#p96795 You wouldn't need a laser, an LED on the nozzle would be enough.  You could make it dim enough that it wouldn't saturate the image at the exposure/movement speed being used.  That would make the surface seem transparent, and you could play with concentric fill patterns of various densities.  You could run it really fast since you don't need to worry about extrusion speed, backlash, and perfect layer stacking.  You could also use a thick layer height roughly equivalent to the size of the LED.

If you already have a nozzle fan, you could connect the LED to its plug (with an appropriate resistor) and set its brightness using the fan slider in Repetier.

]]> Sat, 23 May 2015 05:27:11 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/96795/#p96795 <![CDATA[Re: Light 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/96787/#p96787 Rocketman wrote:

Silly idea I suppose but what if there was a fast moving X and Y axis with a low power laser on the end of it that outlines each layer of an object and a camera takes a long exposure of the entire outlining of each layer process? I guess it is not uncommon to use long exposures and lasers to create art, but what would a 3D object of laser light look like?


If you are using a camera to reproduce the image then it would only be 2d. They do laser light shows with galvos that are fast enough to do a single 3d object in open space.

]]> Sat, 23 May 2015 04:15:35 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/96787/#p96787 <![CDATA[Light 3D Printing?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/95752/#p95752 Silly idea I suppose but what if there was a fast moving X and Y axis with a low power laser on the end of it that outlines each layer of an object and a camera takes a long exposure of the entire outlining of each layer process? I guess it is not uncommon to use long exposures and lasers to create art, but what would a 3D object of laser light look like?

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