I’m hoping someone here can provide some generic cost information. Not looking at material (yet). Or costs driven by delivery time (e.g. Materialise’s 24hr turnaround).
Use this Hummel figurine as a baseline (link to picture). Four inches tall. Assume it’s raw off the rp machine. No finishing of any kind.
What would this cost:
a) as a completely solid part?
b) as a hollowed/shelled part?
And please provide the process/material with the dollar figures.
I’ve started contacting service bureaus that I know and will post what I get back from them. Just want to get a baseline for right now.
I can’t offer a quote, but I can put you in contact with the RP house we use if you’re interested. They’re pretty helpful and I imagine they could answer your questions pretty easily.
Thanks, I may take you up on that. If you’ve seen my recent blog entries, you probably know what I’m up to. I’ve been calling around. Will probably send out a file for quotes so I can establish a baseline.
From what I’ve heard so far, RP has dropped faster than I expected. Hope that holds when I get quotes.
Yeah, I read through your blog and I see what you’re up to I’m curious to see how it turns out.
This is RP house we use: http://www.3d-cam.com/. We have received great models from them. They have a variety of modelling methods and they can help you pick the right one for your application.
I’m curious to see how it turns out.