Month: June 2015

Hi,

Here is my last blog report. I proudly can announce that the project is finished and the service for metal prints is coming. The name of our service will be „ we will print you“ and will start as a B2B sevice. 3D scan companys and designer can order their busts and products at our website which is coming soon. If you are interested in a bust of yourself or a friend, please get in contact with our partner ScanLounge from Amsterdam. There you can already get information about getting scanned and options of the result.
If you have a scan company yourself and you are interested in including metal bust into your range of products please contact us via our website www.wewillprintyou.com when it is ready. If you want some more infomation just contact the staff of Colorfabb. We are also interested in testing prints for your special need.
If you are a designer or a prop master and you are searching for a method to get your unique product in bronze, brass or copper look? Just contact us to get additional information.

I hope you will enjoy our service and find what you are looking for.

Best wishes,

Ines

 

 

Summer has come to the Netherlands and we all love to ride a bike here.

Read more about the 3D printed bike here!

Hey you 3D printing enthusiasts!

So this is what’s possible with everyday’s 3D printers and a suitable filament: the XT-CF20 bike

I’ve been working on this 3D printed bike during the past 5 months and now we are ready to publish this, it works like charm 🙂

We’ve used an Ultimaker Original Plus with a 0.8 nozzle to print these parts. Only the handle has been printed on the STACKER.

Printing the entire bike frame would take too much time and material, so we decided to print the lugs and connect tubes to them. The result is an amazingly strong bike frame at an acceptable weight.

The big benefit of making your own bike is that the sizes of the bike can be customized manually before 3D printing to preserve best ergonomics. Various types of tubing can be used including carbon, titanium, aluminum or bamboo.

3D printing allows a huge freedom of forms and allows unique features in the design. This has been used to implement a new kind of adhesive distribution system. With this technique one can assemble the bike and add an polyurethane adhesive which distributes itself to the right places without getting your hands dirty. The strength of the bike frame has been tested with a FEM analysis and, of course in real life use.

the XT-CF20 bike can be downloaded via GrabCAD: https://grabcad.com/library/xt-cf20-bike-3d-printed-bicycle-1

Youmagine: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/3d-printed-bike

Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:892442

 

Enjoy 🙂

Stephan