http://www.replicadb4.com/default.aspx
" He's using a Solidoodle desktop 3D printer to print out roughly 2,500 pieces to use as plugs for fiberglass molds. The plugs are the basis on which the fiberglass is formed.
Sentch began his ambitious project in December and has printed about 72 percent of the parts for the body molds.
"Preparing the next prints only takes a couple of hours a week. It's just really the sanding of the printed parts before I glue them together that is time-consuming -- and dreadfully boring," Sentch told Solidoodle.com.
Sentch also told Solidoodle that there will be "endless months of work" once it's all assembled before he can take a mold. "
Wow that is an ambitious project. It sounds like an enormous time sink printing all those little bits. I think it may have paid off looking into building a large scale cnc mill/router for foam. On his blog he stated that paying for cnc services was too much. But some resourcefulness probably could have yielded him a machine of his own thatwould cut his work in half.
Yeah, seems like a DIY 3D foam cutter would have been a much better tool.
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-CNC/
jpnovak
New Reader
7/31/13 9:17 a.m.
I have a 3D printer and this is so cool. you just expanded my world of possibilities.
And I thought I was doing good making face plates for LCD readouts for my megasquirt system. Oh, and injector bung models, twin plug adapters and a few other car projects.
Clearly, I need to think bigger.
I liked when i scrolled down and saw a white FC rx7 RHD with GTR R32 wheels :)
(short attention span)
Enyar
HalfDork
8/7/13 9:30 a.m.
More info:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/3d-printed-aston-martin/
Moving this to the general forum since it's not your ongoing project.
Keith Tanner wrote:
Yeah, seems like a DIY 3D foam cutter would have been a much better tool.
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-CNC/
Small foam cutters are OK priced but large car part sized ones are crazy expensive.
Now a wooden buck cut from the model with a CNC router then filled with foam and filed down would make a excellent starting point for a mold.
