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FYI my printer is technically not SLA. It's LCD. SLA uses a laser to draw the image on the slice. The more surface area the slice has, the longer that slice will take to expose. DLP and LCD printers use an imager to expose the entire slice at once. DLP uses a reflective imager like a DLP home video projector, to project…
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Thanks for all your help! More good info. The 3d printer I bought has a large print size: (11.5 x 6.5 x 15.75 inch) and the prints look amazing. Very high detail. Its a kickstarter so I have to wait a few months before it will arrive. But we're getting close and it should be here Aug or Sept at the latest. But the company…
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Thanks for those answers. We're on the right track. :smiley: On the baking of foam latex. That does answer why he had what I thought was a clay mold. He went over the mold process fast as it wasn't what the course was about. So I assumed that when he said it had to go in the oven he was talking about making the mold, not…
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Actaully I'll add to it. The rod puppet class ended up being more about the molding process than the process of designing and crafting mechs for the rod puppets. I'd like to see a new rod puppet class on how to create the different types of rod mechanisms for a full rod puppet. Talk about making the small soldiers walk and…
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I also would like to see newer methods of using 3d printers in various ways for production. Obviously for props it's very useful. But for use in making mechs, using it to print sculps or printing the mold directly, and some discussion of materials and how they interact. What will adhere to what and what will release from…
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Thanks. Figured that was the deal. I only have to wait 3 days to see part 2. :)
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Actually I see on the side links for a lot of web courses but not a link on the class I'm currently taking.