[Mgs] unusual machine

[Max Heim]

That one or a similar product...


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

on 3/22/09 10:23 PM, Eric Erickson at eric at erickson.on.net wrote:

> Max Heim wrote:
>> Yeah, it can. I'm sure there is a limit to the complexity attainable, but
>> that is what it does.
>> 
>> I'm not sure precisely how this brand operates, but one way it works is by
>> starting with a vat of heat-hardening transparent plastic. Then three
>> lasers, one each in the x,y and z axes, focus on a single spot, which heats
>> it enough to harden instantly. Controlled by computer, the lasers scan the
>> three-dimensional volume of the liquid, hardening only those areas occupied
>> by a solid in the "model". These solid parts do not have to be contiguous.
>> 
>> When done, the excess liquid is washed away, revealing the assembled object.
>> 
>> It may be done with a powder instead of a liquid, or a "soft" solid.
>> 
> 
> 
> Sorry, I came in late (and we don't see "leno" here).
> 
> I assume this is the machine you are talking about?
> 
> http://www.dimensionprinting.com/
> 
> 
> 
> Eric