<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Sugar Glass Filament?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/4235/sugar-glass-filament/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:01:58 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Sugar Glass Filament?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/38912/#p38912 There is some high quality sugar printing being done by either melting or binding sugar powder, much like the high end printers that use powdered Nylon.

Here is a post at RepRap about the sugar extruder - http://blog.reprap.org/2012/07/on-chall … r-for.html.  It isn't sugar filament, but was originally sugar sticks in a glue gun.  The final extruder is a derivative of Makerbot's Frostruder, with a heater added - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26343.  You can print chocolate with it too.

]]> Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:01:58 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/38912/#p38912 <![CDATA[Re: Sugar Glass Filament?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/38904/#p38904 How do the sugar extruding 3D printers work? Do they use 'filament' or do they take sugar granules into the extruder head? If the latter, I wonder how they control flow...

]]> Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:08:06 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/38904/#p38904 <![CDATA[Re: Sugar Glass Filament?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/38900/#p38900 If it did work, once that caramelizes in the pipe, you would never get it out completely.

]]> Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:13:51 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/38900/#p38900 <![CDATA[Sugar Glass Filament?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/38889/#p38889 Has anybody thought about making filament from sugar? Such a filament does exist btw, look on YouTube.

So I guess you could make edible objects (?... maybe), dissolvable objects or for support structures (dissolvable).

This is an object printed with such filament... Pretty nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp1H8ksyphk

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