To me, the APIUM layer heater was the most exciting. The possibility of having 3D printed parts with strength properties the same as injection molded parts sounds like a game-changing technology. I found myself wondering if a laser working alongside a nozzle could have a similar effect.
Or maybe a car headlight bulb with a little reflector? Or perhaps just use part of a coil cooktop basically like they did, bit of tempered glass and you're good.
laser idea is brilliant, IMO, the only problem is you would have to calibrate laser intensity for different colors, because obviously darker filaments would be much easier to heat with light vs lighter ones UPD: also I guess you could use IR laser, which is more efficient at heating and less reliant on filament color
There are scientific papers about the laser solution and it has already been tested so far. I guess that the solution of APIUM is a bit better, because it spreads the heat more evenly. I also thought about such a ring heater a few month ago but for desktop printer. Maybe it would be nice if Stefan could craft something like a copper ring around the nozzle that spreads heat in a bigger zone around the nozzle. But this copper ring needs to be very close to the layer, otherwise the heat wouldn't get to the printed part very effectively.
But then you run into the safety issues you usually run into with lasers, such as going blind or setting random stuff on fire. A filament bulb would emit full spectrum light over a wider area, which seems to be part of the secret sauce. Slightly melt a wider area to bond whole layers, not just the one line you're currently laying down. That and there's basically no real safety concerns beyond what you already have with heating elements and electricity. Something IR would probably be favorable just so most energy is getting turned into heat instead of being wasted through reflections, maybe slightly undervolt a small PAR halogen bulb like the ones used for display cabinets and such. Maybe a lizard bulb even.
Hi Stefan! Thanks for the feature, glad you came by. We're figuring out the final steps of production as we speak and are thrilled to put it out on the market to push the 3D printing even further!
That Induction heater is brilliant! I am surprised that it wasn't implemented sooner as off the shelf parts exist for inductive heating, the concept of milling a tool steel nozzle for it isn't far out!
@@russ-techindustries I could see an ender 3 add on, just taking the heating and cooling times into account. Seems doable. Probably use some optocouplers and an op amp with some thermistors to keep the Temps in check and a very good fan for rapid cooling...
Totally agree. Inductive soldering irons are the slimmest and lightest I've ever used and similarly heat up in just a few seconds. Would be great for a nozzle.
@@davidelang Maybe a variable temperature one (mine has no sensor and relies on the bit's composition and Curie point to maintain a specific temperature). I think a driver should be pretty straightforward though, doing high frequency PWM of a coil.
I have contacted many recycling centers and industrial recyclers across my state here in the US and most have not even heard of PLA recycling, let alone begun the process of accepting it. I wish I had a way of reducing the most wasteful part of this hobby :(
Dyi recycling is still possible but not easy since there is a material variance. Basically to do it right you need a solid shredder and then a wait to clear the inevitable piece of petg that gets in there and clogs it all. Then after you have a blended material. It about melting it back into a filament of right dimensions.
That's what we found out too in Indonesia. We from filagain run an experimental 'waste bank' for 3D printing waste and haven't found local recycler that accept PLA, even half of them don't even know what PLA is. Ironically 'environmentally friendly' or bio plastics are arguably more harmful than conventional plastic because it's not so common that there is a lack of proper recycling or composting infrastructure to process it (larger bioplastics requires more time & heat to degrades, hence why regular composter would not accept PLA waste), and IMO there might be less attractive to process it because PLA as bio plastics, degrades faster that may affect its recycling viability. If you want an actually environmentally friendly plastic, ironically ABS plastic that is from oil, would be the better option. Because ABS has proven recyclability, usually in demand by local recycler and doesn't requires new specific infrastructure to process it.
That wide heater around the nozzle is brilliant! I bet it'd work fantastic with POM as well as PEEK. POM is such a pain the ass to print... Getting accurate dimensions is basically impossible because it shrinks *so much* while it cools. It also won't stick to itself if you don't keep it really hot. Cooling helps with dimensional accuracy but then you end up with layers that delaminate far too easily. With a heater moving over the print that'd (probably) fix that problem entirely!
You did note that it was inductive? Heats only the Ferrous material (Iron, Hardened steel) and coupled with an IR sensor can be very accurate and dynamic in temps throughout the layer.
I think you 2 are talking about different parts. The “print area” heater looked brilliant for printing those hard to print thermoplastics! The inductive heated nozzle also looked really great for those as well but it wasn’t demonstrated printing PEEK with perfect layer adhesion…. I want both!!
@@malloot9224 Why wouldn't you want to have an enclosure? Moisture is in the air everywhere in different quantity. You are heating something close to combustion temps, yet water intrusion (which expands 1000 times @ 100C) you disregard? Cheap enclosure? A big cardboard box sealed with polyurethane sealer. A vent fan with temperature switch to circulate if hot.
To be honest, the Plasmics INo Trident is the most exciting development to me. The idea of precise temperature control, at the nozzle, is very appealing and should help with some of the issues that might arise from printing at vastly different speeds, where high flow can bleed heat away from the nozzle. That said, there is so much innovation here and it's AWESOME to see!
Love the variable nozzle diameter idea. Can’t wait until that makes it’s way into the mainstream. I wish I knew about recycling centers like that in the US. That’s sounds great. Thanks for all your hard work!
Even though it likely won’t happen, I hope every last one of these concepts in this video take off, especially the recycling center. Really wish we had something like that here in the US.
Thank you very much for the great coverage. This feedback simply raises our confidence in offering the right products. Thanks to all commenters as well, your comments are truly motivating. We do our best to deliver outstanding technology and we are really happy to receive such great feedback.
The "Recycling Fabrik" is what I've been looking for for a while. I have been collecting my defective prints and support material from PLA since day one and have long considered making the filament from it myself. I've already thought about sending you the material for your extruder. :)
That’s what I’ve been doing too. I literally have a large cardboard box that I am just filling up with waste filament. I do wish there was a recycling center here in the US for this stuff.
finally, actual innovation is coming back to 3d printing. Seems like ever since Bambu Labs released their printers we've entered a second golden age for 3d printing. Hopefully consumers can get their hands on some of these technological advancements soon.
In the industrial/business space, it never left, there's been amazing stuff on almost every trade show but most of it never gets seen by "normal" people. I do agree with the sentiment for the consumer/prosumer market though
Off topic, but I’ve been experimenting with using a vacuum chamber to force different resins into the voids in FDM prints to improve transparency, strength and air tightness. Maybe it’s something you want to investigate?
Vaccum, then sink the part in resin and then apply pressure. Nice idea mate, you would need to solve the infill voids. Even it would have been a patentable idea.
I actually love the idea of AR guided maintenance.. I would pay for an AR program to help me maintain or fix my motorcycle. I love riding but I’m not super mechanical and I get nervous any time I have to do maintenance, so having an augmented reality partner to show me what to do would be incredible! There is so much potential there!
As someone who prints with PEEK, I’ve tried to achieve that effect by letting the heat block spend a lot of time going over the part. It works really well, but print times go absolutely through the roof, and I don’t have an algorithm to control it well. Glad to know I was onto something.
Heating the printed part from above seems way more rational than heating the entire bed or the chamber. I've been thinking about that technique for a while...but using diode laser to focus on the exact point right before the plastic deposition.
My toughts exacly when the individual layer heating was mentioned, my understanding is that the relationship between the laser diode wave length and the colour of the thing you want to heat is very important, some colors absorb the laser while others bounce it, that would mean you could only use a small range of filament colours, makes sense?
@@wallpaper1138 : Infrared laser doesn't care much about colors. There is some variation according to different materials...but we're only interested in superficial heating, so...not a problem either.
What they showed here is for a totally different reason than what you'd use a heated bed for though. A heated bed does nothing for layer adhesion. past the bottom layers. I'd still want a heated bed so that the part stays stuck to the bed until after printing.
This format works well, short, to the point with enough different things that it can be casually watched. A contrast to your much more detailed technical details.
This is my favourite video you've put out, I love it when you cover new advances in the 3d printing space and the exhibitions are the best place for that.
@@CNCKitchen I love seeing what's new in printing since I can't easily attend myself. It would be great to see a follow up as to where these ideas are at today. Did they improve? Are they closer to being on the market? I have so many other questions on the ideas in this video.
That sculpman ribbon nozzle could potentially just use coasting and then close the nozzle completely rather than worrying about retraction. Not going to ooze if there's no open orifice.
Only heated head for PEEK printing and recycling factory seems interesting and really innovative. Other projects will die soon and never get to the market.
I love recycling fabrik, since they started I collect all my waste and failed prints sorted by material and also the old spools. You will get shop credits for sending your stuff to them and can get the material from them cheaper. I also love the color radiants of their material. It prints like regular pla and i had no issues with the 3 spools i already have here. I sent them around 15kg of waste and spools and this is prevented to get into landfill, so a win win in my books!
the idea of 7 nozzles is one way to get around the issue of needing a transition tower when trying to print things "in color". Heater idea was cool too for mechanical parts.
I was there when the first personal computers started to sell among households. Back then i already knew this is gonna be huge, this will be the future. Just less than a decade the Internet came, and i had the same feeling about it. Now its the 3D printing. We are about witnessing the most revolutionary thing which will completely reshape the consumer society in 10-20 years from now.
Mihai has been teasing us with his shorts from this event. Thanks for making this longer video that actually gives some details. I'd love to go next year
I appreciate the pace of this video, learned a lot in 11 minutes! 🙂 Sometimes interview style videos at these events can be a bit draggy, unless the person you are interviewing is super interesting and engaging. 🙂
For me the holy grail of the industry is getting the extrusion print uniformed, with no layer lines which will yield a stronger part and much easier to finish.
That APIUM technology may bring huge improvements to industrial 3Dprinting for sure! Its great to see how fast 3dprinting is developing, and all the community has to do with that
@@amoose136 the software doesn’t need to be very complicated, just heat the part at a lower than optimum level, it would still increase layer adhesion above a stock printer. Company’s like to make stuff sound advanced by using the term “proprietary algorithms”
I am an RC guy, (intersted in Remote Controlled cars) and the most interesting part for me was APIUM's perfect adhesion. As some parts on my cars broke - I tried to print some parts in order not to buy new ones, and I always had that problem where the part would spilt in half and then the car just brakes. I guess it would be epic to make some parts using that APIUM technology!
Wow, this APIUM layer heater is a really nice innovation. Layer adheasion seems to be the biggest drawback of FDM prints so improving this is awesome! Maybe it will even be more produktive than SLS printing?
RecyclingFabrik Klasse sowas habe ich gesucht. Der Gelbe Sack ist BS. Genau sowas brauchen wir als Plastikdrucker. Gibt es sogar als "Refill" ohne die blöde Spule. GENIAL!
That's an awesome set of projects. The thing that stands out to me is how the printers seemed to be split between "this is a large sheet metal-built printer with numerous linear rails and industrial design parts... even it's just one specialized component (usually extruder)" and "this is literally a Voron with a specialized component (usually extruder)"
The Recycling Fabrik looked good, but checking their website the best case offer I can get is 11€ for 5kg clean and sorted PLA/PETG including spools. You can only use up to 25% of your recycling points in a single order and there stuff is rather expensive at 24€/kg for basic black PLA. Recycling the stuff is a good idea, but I don't see this as a good way, not enough incentive for me and with all the shipping needed I doubt it makes a difference in the end for the environment of it ends up in the landfill or gets shipped, molten and shipped again. I'll wait for a good and easy way to recycle at home.
Very much liked the desktop tensile tester, the inductive nozzle heater, and particularly the heater shroud. Having only 40-60% of the XY tensile strength in the Z direction has always sucked as a design consideration and it looks like they practically just solved the issue with little compromise except perhaps you can’t use it on layers where you’ve just bridged without the bridged region sagging immediately.
These are some amazing technologies. I'm interested in the Inductive heated nozzle. I seems expensive now, but could be way better that using a basic resistive heater cartridge.
It will be very interesting to see how the inductive heater interacts with the multi-channel high-flow nozzles. It seems to me that they should interact in a way that produces more then just the sum of their individual benefits.
Heating filament to ensure better adhesion will take 3d printing much further. However, I wonder if it would be better to use a laser to heat precisely where the next layer will contact as a more efficient way of adhesions improvement.
I was kind of bummed when I called Recycling Fabrik from Palmer, Alaska. So when I travel every year to Heidelberg to visit my Great Aunt I bring a suitcase full. Kind of freaked them out the first time when I showed up. I meet Jonas Kieserling.
Induction nozzles are definitely the future of FDM/FFF printing. Once someone has all the software and interaction sorted, it will be so much faster to get prints going.
The heater got me thinking that maybe a laser (not too hot) mounted next to the nozzle and pointed at the bead that is just put down might help layer mixture/adhesion?
Yeah, but you also have to add laser safety into the equation. So really just adding in laser rated glass and many interlocks into the printers frame would probably work fine. Also driving said laser depends on the laser. Still a good idea, just a bit touchy... all doable with off the shelf parts....
Variable heating at the nozzle opens the possibility of gradient-density printing for making lens blanks. Not just the shape of a lens bends light, the density of the material plays a major role. Having regions of a lens at higher or lower density than others opens the door to disk-shaped lenses that perform as if they were domed.
That's one of the theoretical advantages of a printer with a tool changer as well, though asfaik we're still waiting for slicer support for this feature
That induction nozzle looks like it would be awesome for a soldering pen!!! Able to reach temperatures that could melt solder in 3 - 4 sec. Then cool down in a couple of seconds!👍
As a previous E3D Cyclops customer can't say I'd be interested in the Liqtra multi-nozzle. I'm sure it would work just fine if you're extruding a portion of every filament all the time, to produce colour- or material-blended results, but if you're just switching between filaments periodically you're going to damage the standby filaments by leaving them parked at the operating temperature for extended periods - and this leads to clogging. This is exactly why I stopped using Cyclops in short order, because of the constant clogging and the difficulties unclogging them.
Recycling Fabrik defiantly sounds the most interesting to me! Will contact them to get a use out of all the 3D printed waste we are producing. Thanks for the great content!
I think the Recycling Fabrik company (in Germany?) would be a really great fit for Schools and Students! Because it would take some of the stress off of the people in the school, knowing that all of the failed and no longer needed prints could be recycled again. And they would have a steady flow of used filament and business for the company! I really think they should seek out a contract with schools, whether across the world or just in their own country.
Hopefully we can see more recycling of filament available in the future! I think things are looking good for the future - but I also think we should be more realistic about the current state of recycling 3D printing materials, even PLA. Which as it turns out is actually kinda terrible. I've got nowhere to send my waste PLA, and as far as I can tell the only choice for me personally is to trash it. I checked with my local recycling, they won't take any sort of PLA. I don't know anybody in my area with an industrial compost unit suitable for composting it. So I basically have very few options.
Most plastic isn't recycled anyways, even on US military or government spaces the plastic recycling is thrown into the same trash bag as the rest... I was kind of upset when I saw even the aluminum cans getting tossed (otherwise I would have melted them down and recycled them myself in my own castings). So me saving all my bottles up and taking them to work was wasted effort. Unfortunately the DIY options are terrible for the environment if its extruding it back, you end up having huge amounts of manufacturing for parts to save maybe 20 pounds of plastic in your lifetime of wasted plastic, and the machine impact to the environment building it was far more damage. Also I don't print desk toys, so the amount of support material I have is like 0.05 kg per roll absolute max, even when you've got like 100 pounds of plastic its not feasable unless you've got some school or community based group collecting plastic (riding bicycles to go out and collect it, because the instant you drive a car for a few miles that's far more damage than the plastic probably took), it just becomes a scam.
Great video! Didn't even hear about this trade show before and great to see that there is so much actually new stuff rather than minimal iterations on known designs.
Most exciting in descending order: INo Trident, QBig, Recycling Fabrik....I do wish they had more filament recycling opportunities in the USA, especially for businesses that print
To me, the APIUM layer heater was the most exciting. The possibility of having 3D printed parts with strength properties the same as injection molded parts sounds like a game-changing technology. I found myself wondering if a laser working alongside a nozzle could have a similar effect.
Or maybe a car headlight bulb with a little reflector? Or perhaps just use part of a coil cooktop basically like they did, bit of tempered glass and you're good.
laser idea is brilliant, IMO, the only problem is you would have to calibrate laser intensity for different colors, because obviously darker filaments would be much easier to heat with light vs lighter ones
UPD: also I guess you could use IR laser, which is more efficient at heating and less reliant on filament color
There are scientific papers about the laser solution and it has already been tested so far. I guess that the solution of APIUM is a bit better, because it spreads the heat more evenly.
I also thought about such a ring heater a few month ago but for desktop printer. Maybe it would be nice if Stefan could craft something like a copper ring around the nozzle that spreads heat in a bigger zone around the nozzle. But this copper ring needs to be very close to the layer, otherwise the heat wouldn't get to the printed part very effectively.
But then you run into the safety issues you usually run into with lasers, such as going blind or setting random stuff on fire. A filament bulb would emit full spectrum light over a wider area, which seems to be part of the secret sauce. Slightly melt a wider area to bond whole layers, not just the one line you're currently laying down. That and there's basically no real safety concerns beyond what you already have with heating elements and electricity. Something IR would probably be favorable just so most energy is getting turned into heat instead of being wasted through reflections, maybe slightly undervolt a small PAR halogen bulb like the ones used for display cabinets and such. Maybe a lizard bulb even.
@@EvanzoZubinsky you would also need to aim the Laser, else it can only heat the path when the printhead is moving in one direction.
Hi Stefan! Thanks for the feature, glad you came by. We're figuring out the final steps of production as we speak and are thrilled to put it out on the market to push the 3D printing even further!
Can't wait!
That Induction heater is brilliant! I am surprised that it wasn't implemented sooner as off the shelf parts exist for inductive heating, the concept of milling a tool steel nozzle for it isn't far out!
I know! It makes so much sense!
@@russ-techindustries I could see an ender 3 add on, just taking the heating and cooling times into account. Seems doable. Probably use some optocouplers and an op amp with some thermistors to keep the Temps in check and a very good fan for rapid cooling...
Totally agree. Inductive soldering irons are the slimmest and lightest I've ever used and similarly heat up in just a few seconds. Would be great for a nozzle.
@@makers_lab makes me wonder if someone could hack an inductive soldering iron for this purpose.
@@davidelang Maybe a variable temperature one (mine has no sensor and relies on the bit's composition and Curie point to maintain a specific temperature). I think a driver should be pretty straightforward though, doing high frequency PWM of a coil.
I have contacted many recycling centers and industrial recyclers across my state here in the US and most have not even heard of PLA recycling, let alone begun the process of accepting it. I wish I had a way of reducing the most wasteful part of this hobby :(
Dyi recycling is still possible but not easy since there is a material variance. Basically to do it right you need a solid shredder and then a wait to clear the inevitable piece of petg that gets in there and clogs it all. Then after you have a blended material. It about melting it back into a filament of right dimensions.
OR just save it all up smash it to bits with a hammer and metal it in to a block and jam a handle In it for a soft faced hammer
Fusion Filaments
That's what we found out too in Indonesia. We from filagain run an experimental 'waste bank' for 3D printing waste and haven't found local recycler that accept PLA, even half of them don't even know what PLA is. Ironically 'environmentally friendly' or bio plastics are arguably more harmful than conventional plastic because it's not so common that there is a lack of proper recycling or composting infrastructure to process it (larger bioplastics requires more time & heat to degrades, hence why regular composter would not accept PLA waste), and IMO there might be less attractive to process it because PLA as bio plastics, degrades faster that may affect its recycling viability.
If you want an actually environmentally friendly plastic, ironically ABS plastic that is from oil, would be the better option. Because ABS has proven recyclability, usually in demand by local recycler and doesn't requires new specific infrastructure to process it.
Ur trading PLA for diesel when ur recycling 🙈
That wide heater around the nozzle is brilliant! I bet it'd work fantastic with POM as well as PEEK. POM is such a pain the ass to print... Getting accurate dimensions is basically impossible because it shrinks *so much* while it cools. It also won't stick to itself if you don't keep it really hot. Cooling helps with dimensional accuracy but then you end up with layers that delaminate far too easily. With a heater moving over the print that'd (probably) fix that problem entirely!
You did note that it was inductive? Heats only the Ferrous material (Iron, Hardened steel) and coupled with an IR sensor can be very accurate and dynamic in temps throughout the layer.
I think you 2 are talking about different parts. The “print area” heater looked brilliant for printing those hard to print thermoplastics! The inductive heated nozzle also looked really great for those as well but it wasn’t demonstrated printing PEEK with perfect layer adhesion…. I want both!!
My question is can you do the reheating with a laser
I'd say it would probably make abs printable without an enclosure, seems pretty useful for DIY machines as well
@@malloot9224 Why wouldn't you want to have an enclosure? Moisture is in the air everywhere in different quantity. You are heating something close to combustion temps, yet water intrusion (which expands 1000 times @ 100C) you disregard?
Cheap enclosure? A big cardboard box sealed with polyurethane sealer. A vent fan with temperature switch to circulate if hot.
Love the diversity of printing this channel showcases
Great to hear that!
9:36 the tooLHEAD got me rolling 💀
To be honest, the Plasmics INo Trident is the most exciting development to me. The idea of precise temperature control, at the nozzle, is very appealing and should help with some of the issues that might arise from printing at vastly different speeds, where high flow can bleed heat away from the nozzle. That said, there is so much innovation here and it's AWESOME to see!
Love the variable nozzle diameter idea. Can’t wait until that makes it’s way into the mainstream.
I wish I knew about recycling centers like that in the US. That’s sounds great.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Even though it likely won’t happen, I hope every last one of these concepts in this video take off, especially the recycling center.
Really wish we had something like that here in the US.
Crazy stuff - the amount of innovation in this space is incredible.
excellent roundup! 👏
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The "Recycling Fabrik" is what I've been looking for for a while. I have been collecting my defective prints and support material from PLA since day one and have long considered making the filament from it myself. I've already thought about sending you the material for your extruder. :)
Better talk to the guys at Recyclingfabrik!
That’s what I’ve been doing too. I literally have a large cardboard box that I am just filling up with waste filament. I do wish there was a recycling center here in the US for this stuff.
@@CNCKitchen I already ordered a label. 🤙
finally, actual innovation is coming back to 3d printing. Seems like ever since Bambu Labs released their printers we've entered a second golden age for 3d printing. Hopefully consumers can get their hands on some of these technological advancements soon.
In the industrial/business space, it never left, there's been amazing stuff on almost every trade show but most of it never gets seen by "normal" people. I do agree with the sentiment for the consumer/prosumer market though
And bambu's stuff is all proprietary too. Your're at their mercy for replacement/upgraded parts.
Off topic, but I’ve been experimenting with using a vacuum chamber to force different resins into the voids in FDM prints to improve transparency, strength and air tightness. Maybe it’s something you want to investigate?
Vaccum, then sink the part in resin and then apply pressure. Nice idea mate, you would need to solve the infill voids. Even it would have been a patentable idea.
That's genius right there.
Hey Stefan! Yes, please bring us more news like this!
I agree.
I actually love the idea of AR guided maintenance..
I would pay for an AR program to help me maintain or fix my motorcycle. I love riding but I’m not super mechanical and I get nervous any time I have to do maintenance, so having an augmented reality partner to show me what to do would be incredible!
There is so much potential there!
Yeah. Too bad the Hololens is still several thousand dollars. 😮💨
LOVE these videos from trade shows! Keep the coming!
As someone who prints with PEEK, I’ve tried to achieve that effect by letting the heat block spend a lot of time going over the part. It works really well, but print times go absolutely through the roof, and I don’t have an algorithm to control it well. Glad to know I was onto something.
I'm very happy a 3D print recycling company now exists, I was wondering about a year ago why it doesn't exist yet
Heating the printed part from above seems way more rational than heating the entire bed or the chamber.
I've been thinking about that technique for a while...but using diode laser to focus on the exact point right before the plastic deposition.
My toughts exacly when the individual layer heating was mentioned, my understanding is that the relationship between the laser diode wave length and the colour of the thing you want to heat is very important, some colors absorb the laser while others bounce it, that would mean you could only use a small range of filament colours, makes sense?
@@wallpaper1138 : Infrared laser doesn't care much about colors. There is some variation according to different materials...but we're only interested in superficial heating, so...not a problem either.
What they showed here is for a totally different reason than what you'd use a heated bed for though. A heated bed does nothing for layer adhesion. past the bottom layers. I'd still want a heated bed so that the part stays stuck to the bed until after printing.
Amazing innovations..people can be so brilliant when they're passionate.
Fascinating, Stefan. I was impressed seeing large-scale prints with obvious industrial applications - particularly the automobile body parts.
This format works well, short, to the point with enough different things that it can be casually watched.
A contrast to your much more detailed technical details.
This is my favourite video you've put out, I love it when you cover new advances in the 3d printing space and the exhibitions are the best place for that.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@CNCKitchen I love seeing what's new in printing since I can't easily attend myself. It would be great to see a follow up as to where these ideas are at today. Did they improve? Are they closer to being on the market? I have so many other questions on the ideas in this video.
Great coverage, my friend! Also very thankful we ran into each other!
The heat lamp is amazing!! I would love to be smart enough to make my own for my printers
That sculpman ribbon nozzle could potentially just use coasting and then close the nozzle completely rather than worrying about retraction. Not going to ooze if there's no open orifice.
This was the most interesting 3d printing videos I've seen in a while. Thanks for sharing it.
Good stuff! Formnext is so big and so full it's hard to distil a summary. Well done
The adjustable nozzle and heater for better layer adhesion are really good ideas
Only heated head for PEEK printing and recycling factory seems interesting and really innovative. Other projects will die soon and never get to the market.
Regular makers: Oohhh, I don't have enough cooling in my printer's head!
APIUM: Let's remove coolers and instal heaters!
I love recycling fabrik, since they started I collect all my waste and failed prints sorted by material and also the old spools. You will get shop credits for sending your stuff to them and can get the material from them cheaper. I also love the color radiants of their material. It prints like regular pla and i had no issues with the 3 spools i already have here. I sent them around 15kg of waste and spools and this is prevented to get into landfill, so a win win in my books!
the idea of 7 nozzles is one way to get around the issue of needing a transition tower when trying to print things "in color".
Heater idea was cool too for mechanical parts.
I was there when the first personal computers started to sell among households. Back then i already knew this is gonna be huge, this will be the future. Just less than a decade the Internet came, and i had the same feeling about it. Now its the 3D printing. We are about witnessing the most revolutionary thing which will completely reshape the consumer society in 10-20 years from now.
The voice crack at +- 9:30 caught me totally off guard 😄
Mihai has been teasing us with his shorts from this event. Thanks for making this longer video that actually gives some details. I'd love to go next year
I appreciate the pace of this video, learned a lot in 11 minutes! 🙂 Sometimes interview style videos at these events can be a bit draggy, unless the person you are interviewing is super interesting and engaging. 🙂
Glad it was helpful! I enjoy such a format way more than too long interviews.
For me the holy grail of the industry is getting the extrusion print uniformed, with no layer lines which will yield a stronger part and much easier to finish.
There are companies that do this. A few of them were even at Formnext.
Excellent coverage Stefan! I was there and I STILL missed a lot of this! Glad I had you to cover the parts I missed! 💪🏼
I’m most intrigued by the pellet printer and being able to print with a 3mm nozzle - for large prints it could save days
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That APIUM technology may bring huge improvements to industrial 3Dprinting for sure! Its great to see how fast 3dprinting is developing, and all the community has to do with that
Please keep going to these! This is amazing!
The usual condensate of my German neighbours! Reliable info, kindness, professional grade video... Merci beaucoup Stefan.
The layer remelting idea was really good and would be soo easy to implement at home
It would be easy to make the hardware part of it anyway. Software simulator part is not so simple.
@@amoose136 the software doesn’t need to be very complicated, just heat the part at a lower than optimum level, it would still increase layer adhesion above a stock printer. Company’s like to make stuff sound advanced by using the term “proprietary algorithms”
I like a lot this format, straight to the point.
really amazing stuff, pls do more coverage like these.
maybe in a similar format you could go over new patterns or papers that push the field forward
Fraunhofer has done so much cool stuff, including creating the MP3 audio format.
The layer adhesion improvements are impressive.
Game changing is that variable nozzle can maintain print quality when required.
I am an RC guy, (intersted in Remote Controlled cars) and the most interesting part for me was APIUM's perfect adhesion. As some parts on my cars broke - I tried to print some parts in order not to buy new ones, and I always had that problem where the part would spilt in half and then the car just brakes. I guess it would be epic to make some parts using that APIUM technology!
Wow, this APIUM layer heater is a really nice innovation. Layer adheasion seems to be the biggest drawback of FDM prints so improving this is awesome! Maybe it will even be more produktive than SLS printing?
Great vid. Love seeing the stuff from shows in other countries. And 9:35 made me giggle. 😄
RecyclingFabrik
Klasse sowas habe ich gesucht. Der Gelbe Sack ist BS. Genau sowas brauchen wir als Plastikdrucker. Gibt es sogar als "Refill" ohne die blöde Spule. GENIAL!
That's an awesome set of projects. The thing that stands out to me is how the printers seemed to be split between "this is a large sheet metal-built printer with numerous linear rails and industrial design parts... even it's just one specialized component (usually extruder)" and "this is literally a Voron with a specialized component (usually extruder)"
Fraunhofer, the guys that have been fleecing the public one mp3 licence fee at a time since 1987. Long live Ogg Orbis/Opus
Very interesting! I like the format, it's a good balance of video length and quick information.
Best coverage of FORMNEXT. Thank you!
the layer heater is amazing.
I saw a lot of these ideas were prototyped on the old reprap forums back in the 2010's. Amazing to see them in action today.
The Recycling Fabrik looked good, but checking their website the best case offer I can get is 11€ for 5kg clean and sorted PLA/PETG including spools. You can only use up to 25% of your recycling points in a single order and there stuff is rather expensive at 24€/kg for basic black PLA.
Recycling the stuff is a good idea, but I don't see this as a good way, not enough incentive for me and with all the shipping needed I doubt it makes a difference in the end for the environment of it ends up in the landfill or gets shipped, molten and shipped again.
I'll wait for a good and easy way to recycle at home.
Very much liked the desktop tensile tester, the inductive nozzle heater, and particularly the heater shroud. Having only 40-60% of the XY tensile strength in the Z direction has always sucked as a design consideration and it looks like they practically just solved the issue with little compromise except perhaps you can’t use it on layers where you’ve just bridged without the bridged region sagging immediately.
Wow! Really looking forward to seeing these technologies implemented in consumer stuff
The last is the best. That's something we all can probably DIY.
I love this, so much so that I'd even want a longer video with more details on everything
These are some amazing technologies. I'm interested in the Inductive heated nozzle. I seems expensive now, but could be way better that using a basic resistive heater cartridge.
It's also pretty long. I doubt anyone could make something like that fit on to anything like a consumer printer.
Finally, I waited really long for this video :D
Great summary of fdm technologies at Formnext!
It will be very interesting to see how the inductive heater interacts with the multi-channel high-flow nozzles. It seems to me that they should interact in a way that produces more then just the sum of their individual benefits.
MEHR MEHR MEHR! :D
Thanks for the good work!
Heating filament to ensure better adhesion will take 3d printing much further. However, I wonder if it would be better to use a laser to heat precisely where the next layer will contact as a more efficient way of adhesions improvement.
Awesome video! I love seeing the cutting edge to see what the future might bring
Glad you enjoyed it!
The variable nozzle size is very interesting. If you find more information about them, a video about that would be nice.
Getting supports off a peek part must be great fun.
I was kind of bummed when I called Recycling Fabrik from Palmer, Alaska. So when I travel every year to Heidelberg to visit my Great Aunt I bring a suitcase full. Kind of freaked them out the first time when I showed up. I meet Jonas Kieserling.
Great coverage bro, you saw things I didn't even know were there, and I was there for 4 days!
Good thing I hired someone to help me find interesting booths ;-)
Ich danke dir. Dieses Video hat mich glücklich gemacht. Ich mag das Format. Gut zum abspannen
Freut mich zu hören!
I agree the strain gauge would be a excellent birthday present!😊
Induction nozzles are definitely the future of FDM/FFF printing. Once someone has all the software and interaction sorted, it will be so much faster to get prints going.
You really don't need induction to get fast heat ups.
The heater got me thinking that maybe a laser (not too hot) mounted next to the nozzle and pointed at the bead that is just put down might help layer mixture/adhesion?
Yeah, but you also have to add laser safety into the equation. So really just adding in laser rated glass and many interlocks into the printers frame would probably work fine. Also driving said laser depends on the laser. Still a good idea, just a bit touchy... all doable with off the shelf parts....
Variable heating at the nozzle opens the possibility of gradient-density printing for making lens blanks.
Not just the shape of a lens bends light, the density of the material plays a major role.
Having regions of a lens at higher or lower density than others opens the door to disk-shaped lenses that perform as if they were domed.
9:36 LMFAU Stefan got a bit over impressed and voice cracked
i love this format!
Dude i really enjoyed this!
But most of all, holy crap that induction nozzle, wow im all in as soon as it becomes avaliable, what a gamechanger!
Imagine an IDEX printer with two different nozzle sizes that caused layers to overlap and increase strength between layers.
That's one of the theoretical advantages of a printer with a tool changer as well, though asfaik we're still waiting for slicer support for this feature
holo lens for repair jobs giving you exact guides based on the item would be super cool
That induction nozzle looks like it would be awesome for a soldering pen!!!
Able to reach temperatures that could melt solder in 3 - 4 sec. Then cool down in a couple of seconds!👍
I love consumer grade 3d printing but my god industrial stuff makes me so much more excited!
Brilliant idea for the induction heater.
As a previous E3D Cyclops customer can't say I'd be interested in the Liqtra multi-nozzle. I'm sure it would work just fine if you're extruding a portion of every filament all the time, to produce colour- or material-blended results, but if you're just switching between filaments periodically you're going to damage the standby filaments by leaving them parked at the operating temperature for extended periods - and this leads to clogging. This is exactly why I stopped using Cyclops in short order, because of the constant clogging and the difficulties unclogging them.
This is so freaking cool. I might drop by that convention in the future.
Please cover more of these. Love seeing what the future has for 3d printing
Recycling Fabrik defiantly sounds the most interesting to me! Will contact them to get a use out of all the 3D printed waste we are producing. Thanks for the great content!
The inductive nozzle straight up looks like some kind of sci fi prop and I love it
This whole video was fascinating, I look forward to more in the future.
I think the Recycling Fabrik company (in Germany?) would be a really great fit for Schools and Students!
Because it would take some of the stress off of the people in the school, knowing that all of the failed and no longer needed prints could be recycled again.
And they would have a steady flow of used filament and business for the company!
I really think they should seek out a contract with schools, whether across the world or just in their own country.
Hopefully we can see more recycling of filament available in the future! I think things are looking good for the future - but I also think we should be more realistic about the current state of recycling 3D printing materials, even PLA. Which as it turns out is actually kinda terrible. I've got nowhere to send my waste PLA, and as far as I can tell the only choice for me personally is to trash it. I checked with my local recycling, they won't take any sort of PLA. I don't know anybody in my area with an industrial compost unit suitable for composting it. So I basically have very few options.
Most plastic isn't recycled anyways, even on US military or government spaces the plastic recycling is thrown into the same trash bag as the rest... I was kind of upset when I saw even the aluminum cans getting tossed (otherwise I would have melted them down and recycled them myself in my own castings). So me saving all my bottles up and taking them to work was wasted effort.
Unfortunately the DIY options are terrible for the environment if its extruding it back, you end up having huge amounts of manufacturing for parts to save maybe 20 pounds of plastic in your lifetime of wasted plastic, and the machine impact to the environment building it was far more damage. Also I don't print desk toys, so the amount of support material I have is like 0.05 kg per roll absolute max, even when you've got like 100 pounds of plastic its not feasable unless you've got some school or community based group collecting plastic (riding bicycles to go out and collect it, because the instant you drive a car for a few miles that's far more damage than the plastic probably took), it just becomes a scam.
Eddie current heating is a brilliant idea
Great video! Didn't even hear about this trade show before and great to see that there is so much actually new stuff rather than minimal iterations on known designs.
Most exciting in descending order: INo Trident, QBig, Recycling Fabrik....I do wish they had more filament recycling opportunities in the USA, especially for businesses that print