I have more of an artistic background, but working in a shop that uses silicone molds and polyurethane casting in our process has activated huge interest in manufacturing and mass production. Sometimes we have to sculpt certain things by hand, but I've been thinking of ways to offload some of the labor by modeling parts and printing them on my machines. It's pretty straightforward, but there are probably more things around the shop that I could simplify with printed parts. I think it's easy to get swept up into the activity of hobby 3D printing, but printing with a purpose holds a lot more excitement. For me, the feeling of holding a part that I've designed myself easily trumps that of printing a model from somewhere else.
I have done similar work, but the only difference we used to use our 3d prints to make molds that we would cast in urethane or silicone. Then, use those to make parts for the hospital, military, and so forth. I have a background in Industrial Design, the concept of using it for finished parts is completely novel to me.
Hey, tremendous nuggets. Working with antiquated methods on established products that have little wiggle room for process deviation given the criticality of the industry. I am ALWAYS assessing, on a daily basis where it is we could 'potentially' given the choice to make use of 3d printing for process optimization and how I would go about this. It would take away so many ills (in terms of deficiencies, defects and inefficiencies). I do this for multiple material types and classes. Mainly product level is my interest but I also include the range of tooling, fixtures and gauges though the high value products being my real interest. Your video here is a fantastic message.
100 percent on target . My background is in design for high production precision molding and mold making . I have adopted to 3d printing as I see it eventually replacing the molding and mold making industry . The cost of making new products with out molds is a huge factor. Prototyping in the 3d printed industry is so much easier and faster . The problem is there are not enough training resources 6:06 available to train the next generation of engineers. The molders and mold makers that see this will find the transition simple as the issues with 3d print materials strength are solved . The speed of the machines has always been a concern that is now being addressed all we need is an injection molding hot end 6:06 design to bring this to full fruition. Injection molding will not completely go away as some process requires the pressure to increase the strength of some components. But the packaging industry is an easy target that has high volumes
I whole-heartedly agree with this. 99% of people with a 3d printer or 2 or 3 have no idea what large scale production with those machines looks like. I have had experience selling a demanding product before my current job so I had a better idea of how to sell hundreds of a part which is much easier to scale to thousands rather than just the one or 2 parts to a friend. However, I am very happy to see people with 1 or 2 printers get excited to work in this field. As it continues to grow, we will need some people at least familiar with the technology to make the training easier.
Good stuff. Im going though alot of this stuff at work now going from hobby to professional. I kinda made my own job. I work at a custom battery company and started designing and printing work fixtures for the shop. From there a few chances to make simple spacers and parts for batteries came up. I now make 100s of parts per month working on getting it up to 1000s by inserting more printed spacers and simple yet crucial parts in to production units. So if you want a job in 3d printing, get a job in manufacturing and make work for yourself, make the company need your printed parts then print away.
Same here- I work at an engineering company, and I am NOT engineer, but I asked a year ago for a replacement for a $300 part we use on every robot we send out the door that is entirely overkill- I finally just spent a few hours on RUclips learning basic CAD (EXTREMELY basic, not knocking what experts do) and I designed a replacement I can 3D print in an hour that costs maybe a buck. Now they're suddenly very interested in this stuff. 🤷♂️
LinkedIn Learning has a couple of good Solidworks and Fusion courses on design for plastics. It's mostly injection moulding but the same kind of thinking applies, just a different set of rules. Where as wall thickness is important in injection moulding you need to keep in mind layer direction, overhang angles and avoid supports with 3d printing.
I have a 3d printer at home and at work mainly because I like to design shop aides. I run a machine shop so I deal with all kinds of material and help keep all kinds of machines running but I am very new to 3d printing. The CNC machines have customers that have them booked up for years but how can I get production work for my 3D Printer at home?
hey slant3d i have been wondering, as a 3d printing farm that does mass production of real end products, what filament do you use? and what filament companies do you use? thank you
How does one with no art degree, no marking degree get their foot in the door? I did work in the land surveying industry years back, both in the field and in the office using CAD and data collectors. That's as close to engineering experience that I have. I am in need of an interesting career change to ride out to retirement and finding a way into a growing industry seems to be a good way to start at the bottom and learn my up. Problem, is getting the chance.
I have my little farm of printers(only 2) And it is very different to do it as a hobby than to do it for business, it took me a year to know how the hell my printer worked. Now I can detect what problem it has with just the noise it makes xd. I've taken them apart more times than I'd like and have spent many sleepless nights learning how to fix it.
I got into 3D printing because I have used CNC machines KKL machines and APS machines in my line of work in the past. It has been a hobby for me or more or less a crash course in learning how to do it ? Getting some direction as to how to go about the next steps in my consideration of what I started is now something ? I don't know I have a little bit of an ego ? Just personally I think it would be really awesome to manufacture Aerospace parts. Put on probably the farthest away from that I could be ? My point is really how does the dream go and whether or not that is realistic
What phase in product development does slant prefer to start engaging with a new customer? Presuming this is the first part they are mass producing. I am guessing it is after product beta with a first order of some volume. I am sure this would change for established customers.
I really, really, want to know more from Slant 3D. Do I need to send in a job application to do that? Or is there a bag of money that I leave in a back alley or something.
I wouldnt bother. This guy comes off so arrogant all the time. I'm over here building out my home lab and this guy is telling me don't bother, we don't want you. Your brain is tained with the wrong knowlage. Bro you've already got accounting skills, you're no good to him. They want a guy they can tell how they want their books account for, not a guy with knowlage already.
@@arthurdiamondhands474 That's a lot of info to gather off one video, especially when nothing he said comes across that way. Did you get a degree in arm chair psychology?
I have more of an artistic background, but working in a shop that uses silicone molds and polyurethane casting in our process has activated huge interest in manufacturing and mass production.
Sometimes we have to sculpt certain things by hand, but I've been thinking of ways to offload some of the labor by modeling parts and printing them on my machines. It's pretty straightforward, but there are probably more things around the shop that I could simplify with printed parts.
I think it's easy to get swept up into the activity of hobby 3D printing, but printing with a purpose holds a lot more excitement. For me, the feeling of holding a part that I've designed myself easily trumps that of printing a model from somewhere else.
I have done similar work, but the only difference we used to use our 3d prints to make molds that we would cast in urethane or silicone. Then, use those to make parts for the hospital, military, and so forth. I have a background in Industrial Design, the concept of using it for finished parts is completely novel to me.
Hey, tremendous nuggets. Working with antiquated methods on established products that have little wiggle room for process deviation given the criticality of the industry.
I am ALWAYS assessing, on a daily basis where it is we could 'potentially' given the choice to make use of 3d printing for process optimization and how I would go about this.
It would take away so many ills (in terms of deficiencies, defects and inefficiencies). I do this for multiple material types and classes. Mainly product level is my interest but I also include the range of tooling, fixtures and gauges though the high value products being my real interest.
Your video here is a fantastic message.
100 percent on target . My background is in design for high production precision molding and mold making . I have adopted to 3d printing as I see it eventually replacing the molding and mold making industry . The cost of making new products with out molds is a huge factor. Prototyping in the 3d printed industry is so much easier and faster . The problem is there are not enough training resources 6:06 available to train the next generation of engineers. The molders and mold makers that see this will find the transition simple as the issues with 3d print materials strength are solved . The speed of the machines has always been a concern that is now being addressed all we need is an injection molding hot end 6:06 design to bring this to full fruition. Injection molding will not completely go away as some process requires the pressure to increase the strength of some components. But the packaging industry is an easy target that has high volumes
I whole-heartedly agree with this. 99% of people with a 3d printer or 2 or 3 have no idea what large scale production with those machines looks like. I have had experience selling a demanding product before my current job so I had a better idea of how to sell hundreds of a part which is much easier to scale to thousands rather than just the one or 2 parts to a friend. However, I am very happy to see people with 1 or 2 printers get excited to work in this field. As it continues to grow, we will need some people at least familiar with the technology to make the training easier.
Good stuff. Im going though alot of this stuff at work now going from hobby to professional. I kinda made my own job. I work at a custom battery company and started designing and printing work fixtures for the shop. From there a few chances to make simple spacers and parts for batteries came up. I now make 100s of parts per month working on getting it up to 1000s by inserting more printed spacers and simple yet crucial parts in to production units. So if you want a job in 3d printing, get a job in manufacturing and make work for yourself, make the company need your printed parts then print away.
Excellent Example
Same here- I work at an engineering company, and I am NOT engineer, but I asked a year ago for a replacement for a $300 part we use on every robot we send out the door that is entirely overkill- I finally just spent a few hours on RUclips learning basic CAD (EXTREMELY basic, not knocking what experts do) and I designed a replacement I can 3D print in an hour that costs maybe a buck. Now they're suddenly very interested in this stuff. 🤷♂️
Very interesting, can you suggest resources to get better at mass production 3d printing? All your points are very true and valuable! Thanks
LinkedIn Learning has a couple of good Solidworks and Fusion courses on design for plastics. It's mostly injection moulding but the same kind of thinking applies, just a different set of rules. Where as wall thickness is important in injection moulding you need to keep in mind layer direction, overhang angles and avoid supports with 3d printing.
I have a 3d printer at home and at work mainly because I like to design shop aides. I run a machine shop so I deal with all kinds of material and help keep all kinds of machines running but I am very new to 3d printing. The CNC machines have customers that have them booked up for years but how can I get production work for my 3D Printer at home?
hey slant3d i have been wondering, as a 3d printing farm that does mass production of real end products, what filament do you use? and what filament companies do you use? thank you
Unfortunately they don't say, but they are starting to make it in house which should be available to buy as a consumer in the near(ish) future.
How does one with no art degree, no marking degree get their foot in the door? I did work in the land surveying industry years back, both in the field and in the office using CAD and data collectors. That's as close to engineering experience that I have. I am in need of an interesting career change to ride out to retirement and finding a way into a growing industry seems to be a good way to start at the bottom and learn my up. Problem, is getting the chance.
I have my little farm of printers(only 2)
And it is very different to do it as a hobby than to do it for business, it took me a year to know how the hell my printer worked.
Now I can detect what problem it has with just the noise it makes xd. I've taken them apart more times than I'd like and have spent many sleepless nights learning how to fix it.
I got into 3D printing because I have used CNC machines KKL machines and APS machines in my line of work in the past. It has been a hobby for me or more or less a crash course in learning how to do it ? Getting some direction as to how to go about the next steps in my consideration of what I started is now something ? I don't know I have a little bit of an ego ? Just personally I think it would be really awesome to manufacture Aerospace parts. Put on probably the farthest away from that I could be ? My point is really how does the dream go and whether or not that is realistic
What phase in product development does slant prefer to start engaging with a new customer? Presuming this is the first part they are mass producing. I am guessing it is after product beta with a first order of some volume. I am sure this would change for established customers.
I really, really, want to know more from Slant 3D. Do I need to send in a job application to do that? Or is there a bag of money that I leave in a back alley or something.
Are you guys looking for any accountants?
I wouldnt bother. This guy comes off so arrogant all the time. I'm over here building out my home lab and this guy is telling me don't bother, we don't want you. Your brain is tained with the wrong knowlage. Bro you've already got accounting skills, you're no good to him. They want a guy they can tell how they want their books account for, not a guy with knowlage already.
@@arthurdiamondhands474 That's a lot of info to gather off one video, especially when nothing he said comes across that way. Did you get a degree in arm chair psychology?
What are these bad habbits 3d printers learn at home?
So if I want a job in 3d printing dont own a 3d printer? Got it.
Solid info
still waiting for the response…
more like a mechanical engineer