Glass 3D Printing

[Micron3dp]

Hi everyone!

I'm excited to share with you some of Micron3dp glass 3d printing examples, including some lighting fixtures.
















You can see more glass 3d printed examples on our website: http://www.micron3dp.com

[Jackass Glass]

awesome

[BryanJonesGlass]

awesome, it is great to imagine the possibilities. although it looks crude, and unworked in a way, like a coil pot that never got melted in. maybe push the glass out of the extruder in a higher temperature into a mold. glass really needs more interaction, i feel, in order to look like a finished product. but i really like the possibilities.

[apixdesign]

Very impressive

[Simian]

awesome, it is great to imagine the possibilities. although it looks crude, and unworked in a way, like a coil pot that never got melted in. maybe push the glass out of the extruder in a higher temperature into a mold. glass really needs more interaction, i feel, in order to look like a finished product. but i really like the possibilities.

That looks crude? Glass desings that are virtually impossible by hand, especially that clean?

[somewhere]

That looks crude? Glass desings that are virtually impossible by hand, especially that clean?

I've thought about that and wondered if it's possible to make glass printed items that would be impossible to make any other way. I don't think there is but I guess it's possible down the road.

[misticglass]

Very interesting

So this is an FDM process with heated chamber? what is the layer height resolution? how long do the tips last at those temps? what is the operating temps inside the build chamber? can you use pyrex? Are the parts annealed within the same chamber? How do you deal with support material and also support removal and post processing?

I have a lot of questions and also a good amount of experience in this field I work with stratasys machinery at my non glass job. Very cool to see new technologies like this pop up. molten glass seems like a good material for extrusion for fdm 3d printing because of its properties but everything has to be just right and it is a very unforgiving material. Very ambitious.

morgan
misticglass@gmail.com

[misticglass]

All the example parts shown are basic shapes with self supporting angles so I assume that this machine cannot use support material which greatly limits complex geometries. This will not take a skilled glassblowers job anytime soon.

[snoopdog6502]

It may not thrill the bong snobs but This stuff is bad ass, the precision and geometry possible.

3d printing is the future of some manufacturing, I want a big printer I can load up all my junk and garbage into and it shits out a Ferrari.
A complete recycling center.

[Cerberus]

I want a big printer I can load up all my junk and garbage into and it shits out a Ferrari.

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[MpVpRb]

Cool! Thank you!

I'm working in a 3D printer for glass too

Nice to see that someone else is doing it too