1 Topic by sidlauskas.justas

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Topic: Finishing 3D printed models

Dears,

I am completely new to SoliForum. I was going through it for a while and found out, that maybe tere would be people interested into sharing their methods of how they finish their 3D prints.

To be honest - I am interested though bussiness perspective and I am interested in people which use their 3D printers to create "proffesional" or you could call "injection molded" quality products which might be interesting not for their creators, but for people which might be even paying real-life-money for these products.

I have read number and number of articles regarding 3D finishing (acetone vapour treatment, tumblers, sandings and etc.). Would there be people which successfully combined these methods to create high-end 3D prints in really high quality and willing to share their finishing results with soliforum community? Please provide your feedback (pictures would be very good too) for:

Acetone treatments
Sanding
Tumbling
Something else? smile

Sorry to make any repeating topics, but maybe this would be an interesting topic to bring back into discussion.

Best wishes,
Justas

2 Reply by falconisimator

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Re: Finishing 3D printed models

Acetone can make a print look very nice and bind the outer layers together however you will not get an injection mold quality print from any consumer printer. It may be possible with plenty of testing to use acetone to bring prints within reasonable tolerances but they will not be within the tolerances of industrial injection molding.

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