Blog - Fabbaloo - Daily News on 3D Printing. Blog: Sterling Silver Now Available Until November 7th. We are very proud to offer Sterling Silver as our latest production material! In the past we did a test with Silver Ring Poems and Cufflinks, but now you can order any design in brilliant shiny Silver, until at least November 7th10th. We'll use this test period to see if we can achieve the quality and speed that we want. Also, we'll need to learn what size of objects will be ordered - larger objects mean lower overhead costs for us, and in the long run better prices/cm3 for you! Material and Process We're using Sterling silver which is 92.5% pure silver. The models are created using the lost-wax casting process using a high-resolution 3D Wax print of your design.
After printing the model is cleaned and optionally manually polished (we call this Silver Glossy). Price and Delivery Time Silver costs $48/cm3, with a minimum of $30. Design Rules The design rules aren't finished yet - we're still learning how to handle Silver properly. Adding Sprues Ordering new objects in Silver. I.Materialise Glitters with Gold and Silver. 3D print service i.Materialise now offers printing in Gold and Silver metals. They're not the first service to offer this ability, but it's wonderful to see another golden service. Specifics: In addition to the sterling silver, there are three colors of 14 kt gold offered, bright yellow, reddish tinge and white gold available. Prints can be made with up to 0.3mm resolution. The maximum size of these prints is only 88x63x125mm - but if it wasn't limited by size, it would be limited by your pocketbook, as printing in gold and silver is quite expensive. There's one catch: the i.Materialise print farm doesn't actually print gold and silver directly.
Instead, they print a wax model of your design first, and then they use the "lost wax casting" method to produce an actual metal object made of solid gold (or silver). Finally, they finish it off with a lot of hand polishing, which should take out any lines from the 0.3mm resolution printing. Actually, there are two catches. I.materialise is proud to launch Gold and Silver. Today, for the first time ever, you have the chance to create your own products in gold with i.materialise! We are ecstatic to be the first 3D printing service in the world to offer you the chance to see your creations brought to life in this amazing material.
And, if that was not enough, we are also announcing the launch of sterling silver. Our Periodic Table of Materials has never looked so good! “There’s gold in that thar 3D printing service” It has been 183 years since the first Gold Rush hit in the United States and although most of us are no longer racing off to make our fortunes digging in “them thar hills”, the lure of gold and the power it holds over us remains.
There is something that sets this metal apart from all others, and mankind has been using gold to fashion their most precious artifacts for thousands of years. The gold used is 14 carat and there are three colors to choose from: very bright yellow gold, a deeper gold with a reddish rose tinge, and white gold. Pricing. Rapid Jewlery Design. After a fewhints of 3D printing entering the jewelry manufacturing space, we bumped into an article from the All About Rocks blog. They say: The world of Jewelry Manufacturing is right now entering a phase of evolution, the old arts of sketching, modeling, reviewing and restarting that long time consuming process until satisfaction are disappearing.For years already the designers of most of our jewelry have called upon the power of CAD based computer systems to quickly sketch 3d models of new classic and modern designs.
This takes place before the time and budget consuming process of 3d modeling to see how it would look in reality. At that point an approval can be secured and the item can go into full jewelry production. Word of mouth (and in this case a blog) continues to carry the message of 3D printing to others in that industry. Via All About Rocks. Jewelry. 3D Printing with Freedom Of Creation.
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