Printing a Giant Wrench with a 3D Printer

[Boxman363]

OOOOh mate, your British and they are spanners!!

[RogueCrockett]

dude i was flippen shocked when the wrench actually worked i had no idea that 3d printing was actually this complex XD

[Jacno77]

cool you can open a wrench business now

[welbyskinner]

NOW I KNOW HOW TO MAKE CHEAP CONDOMS!

[welbyskinner]

It can print a printer- but don't worry, it can print your thoughts!

[junitono1]

...but can it print a printer?

[Lunchbert]

How good is this resin in comparison to a steel wrench?

[0208thebreed]

Wow man, startreck ere we come

[ABri591]

Spanners, you're english.

[Craft2Use]

damn , print a girl through 3d on the printer and kiss her.

[Scottypowpow]

I wish so badly that I was a technology freak like these people :( I feel dumb

[PrintPhysibles]

I created my own channel about 3d printing. Feel free to check it out :)

[minecraft1851]

Shut up and take my money

[ObjetGeometries]

@54321Judith - Objet technology is used in medical surgery planning - and yes, you can produce a skeleton within a body - check out our 3D printed toddler on the Objet blog.

[SEENAHM]

What is this witchcraft...

[BrainCodane]

this is sick. This would bring the USA Economy back

[54321Judith]

Wow! Can you reproduce a copy of a human in resin for the skeleton? Soft rubber for muscle and soft resin for skin? Robot android type reproductions of people?

[TheArtsyTuber]

Winry would be proud

[Garinovitch]

I CAN NOW FINALLY DOWNLOAD A CAR!

[CodyPlayStationGamer]

@Garinovitch I CAN BUILD A SUPERCOMPUTER!

[Garinovitch]

@CodyPlayStationGamer Thats nothing, I'm gonna clone myself.

[CodyPlayStationGamer]

@Garinovitch haha good one

[xheartshapebox]

When the day comes that we are able to print anything, surely it will be devastating and detrimental to most aspects of human life?

People would stop working, because you would not need money for possessions etc

Everyone could have everything no?

[loctite222ms]

@xheartshapebox You think this is going to be free? Why? Who's is going to give the raw materials away for free? Who will design things for no compensation?

[campeona5]

@xheartshapebox Infinite growth on a finite planet? Think commodities/resources...not so free after all.

[razorozx]

Im going to print out a 3d printer!

[fooojin]

@razorozx i hear that had been done on a TED talk :)

[kantana1022]

the powder one seems better... idunno but it looks like these can only print objects to come out flat bottomed

[golllc]

@kantana1022 it can print anything, even non-flat bottomed objects. view the video till the end and you will see that it also 'prints' support material around objects that are not well connected to the whole structure.

[tiberianfiend]

Who needs nanobots?

[shadowfangize]

So basicly i could take a picture of jennifer lopez and print her in 3D :o

[93yoyo360]

@shadowfangize no.

you need a 3D model of jennifer lopez

[ObjetGeometries]

The Objet 3D printer can replicate moving parts and products - such as bicycle chains and inter-meshing gear wheels all in a single print run. So no assembly whatsoever! But no, sorry, no computer processors yet! The machine jets resin photopolymers that are hardened by UV light. The machine translates any CAD software file into STL format which is then automatically printed in individual layers. Prices start at $19,900. Run time for all 6 wrenches at the same time was about 25 hours.

[FpsLimitless]

I Know this can replicate things, but does this type of 3D printer have the ability to say replicate a computer processor, and have it actually work?

[13smitbr]

@FpsLimitless no, because it can't print using those kind of material, and not nearly replicate something so complicated. Maybe sometime in the future, but not at the moment im afraid.

[FpsLimitless]

@13smitbr Oh I see.

[3goldy]

למה אתם לא מודים שאתם ישראלים? למה אין שום איזור לעברית בשומקום?!

האם יש פלסטיק בחוזק של מתכת? האם תייצרו חומר מורכב שהוא פלסטיק, אבל באמת חזק ביותר?

[bimini121663]

What is the software used in the process? Can any design guy in a shop learn this software in a week? What is the cost of the equipment? Cost per parts..each wrench costs about what? run time per wrench?

[cjedenmark]

just put it on my wishlist :)

[SmartK8]

Good start.. see you in twenty years. I guess gold pressed latinum will be the currency in the galaxy at that time.

[lancechong33]

i wanna print a gun n go to the bank n do some withdrawals. or print money. :)

[adem44a]

Hello free warhammer! :D

[CupcakeExplosion11]

SPAH SAPPING MAH PRINTER!

[steeltormentorband]

The big wrench reminds me of that episode of Fr Ted with the milk man Pat mustard...just saying.

[mapukmapuk]

this plastic is so hard? doesn't break?

[AlphaPooch]

@mapukmapuk dosent break easy

[HANENG18]

Would it be possibke to buy these wrenches ???? :D

[jaggajigga]

How long before, just like Star Trek, we will say " Tea, Earl Grey, White, no sugar" LOL

[ObjetGeometries]

By using a scan you're actually cutting out much of the unique benefits of 3D printing - the ability to effectively produce blind holes and internal supports in a single piece - something that would be very difficult for subtractive forms of manufacturing/prototyping to do..

[BradTheProducer]

Welcome to the future. Want a flying car? Let me send it to my print queue for you.

[cirusMEDIA]

I got a question:

"Can a complex object with moving parts be printed from a scan only?

..or is additional 3D modeling required via the computer???"

[Efro4472]

@cirusMEDIA A scan can't penetrate every material and therefore not see it's internal workings. So, I'd imagine that additional 3D modeling would be required via the computer software.

[cirusMEDIA]

@Efro4472 ok thanks for the feedback.