3D Printing Your Next Dining Room Table BigRep has just announced its new full-scale 3D printer, the BigRep ONE, which offers a 45 x 39 x 47” working volume — that’s big enough to produce full-sized prototypes of many large items, such as an entire dining room table. At just over five feet on each axis for the frame, with a slightly smaller working area within, the BigRep aims to fill a niche between the small enthusiast devices that have made additive manufacturing so popular and the industrial-sized devices that would be both cost- and space-prohibitive for entrepreneurs and small companies. The $39,000 printer comes as an unassembled kit, which the company says takes about two hours to put together. They also say there’s a degree of customization, although it’s not exactly clear how that will work — perhaps the capacity to make the working space taller, or wider in one dimension based on specific needs. It’s the biggest fused deposition modeling (FDM) printer on the market right now. BigRep says that with the FDM process, users can make everything from artistic, custom-designed chairs to technical parts in high-impact Nylon or ABS. And they stand behind the quality of the parts it’s capable of making — every BigRep ONE uses 3D-printed parts made on another BigRep ONE.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:48:21 +0000
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