Ours has saved me many times before having to have an uncomfortable conversation with the tool makers. Plus I can print a lot of the things they don't want to have to deal with.
About 8-10 years ago when 3D printers were only just getting popular i had a home business deisgning go / no-go check gauges for fuel line using solidworks and printed them out in the first ever self leveling 3d printer. Was a lot of fun. I wasn't able to maintain the company but it was fun and profitable for a couple years
3D printing is the future of prototyping, I do hope for the day that SLS becomes more efficient and cheaper for the home/individual market. Love playing with my X Max-3 FDM but I really crave the SLS.
Yeah, sls or the "T-1000 printers" as I like to call them, are definitely better for printing shells/enclosures and the like. The only thing filament printers can do that sls can't (yet) is multicolored printing heh
Injection molding is only cheaper in the 10,000 plus units range, plus it is mostly only made outside of the US.. You can't just count the per unit price, because you have a mold that is $10,000 pulse just for one and it will need replaced again... Gotta think about all the costs.
1:00 I have been using this claw for about a year now since i got it on a replacement holster. I would recommend, its the small details that add up to make a good product. As always, thank you Isaac!
I noticed several mentions of the floor space taken up by the nylon printer. About how often do y'all re-configure layout to eliminate wasted space? Also I know y'all use lean, do y'all also use 5S?
That iteration speed is fantastic. We were printing prototypes with MK machining, and they were doing great, and the turnaround time was very fast, but they could never print and ship as fast as something that's just right by your desk.
@@isaacbotkintrexBeing able to soft launch product without committing to hard tooling has saved us from so many headaches or settling for a suboptimal design because the injection mold is already cut.
I think there is a standard, in general that standard is the ender3 for the individual. They are affordable, mod-able, and those are the guides you will find most commonly for setup and troubleshooting.
Get an ender3 if you want to spend more time troubleshooting why prints are failing than actually printing. Spending even $50 more will get you a more capable, less frustrating machine out of the box.
I've loved watching the evolution of the TREX company. You guys are crushing it. God, family, community. I applaud businesses built on such things. Stay well, stay safe. Thanks for the great content.
Got one months ago with my replacement g43x holster on a warranty RMA when my legacy sidecar cracked, it's pretty sweet, and I was like I really hope they make these in mass in the future to update my other holsters. It appears the time has come.
It's like engineering in god mode. Honestly it's the most fascinating thing I've ever seen, and it only gets better watching people 3D print tools to make things that they are 3D printing. It reminds me of watching welders build their own tools to do welding jobs.
I saw lots of cool additive machines at IMTS this year. A company had a lathe that could build up metal and do the finish turning all with one setup. Another one was doing a shell of plastic then filling the inside with epoxy.
A lot of the materials have low tensile strength and high compressive strength, so great for soft jaws, clamps, forming jigs, even hydraulic press forms for thinner sheet metals.
Someone did the math a few years ago and "bambu lab" probably changed the math but you need to make 1,000 plus items before injection became cheaper, the advent of IDEX and material changers has altered the clean up cost to almost zero.
Love the video! Anyone know what that long tall LCD screen is at 6:25 and so on? I'm digging it and want to know what that screen is / what the pattern/program is.
Make a claw with a clip on it so it stays aligned if you are wearing pants that don't have a belt. How am I supposed to dryfire in my around the house pants if the claw keeps flopping off of the waistline.
Editing this in first because it's way more important : 8:55 you should absolutely *_not_* get used to the smell. That smell is hazardous and can have serious long-term consequences. It's not like drinking radium or something where it'll seep into your bones and kill you over the course of decades, but it's more like making it a habit to paint rooms without a respirator on. Can you do it? Yes. Should you? Absolutely not. Being exposed to it a little bit is fine, but "getting used to it" can be incredibly hazardous. Think about it a bit like having a candle out; it's safe enough to set the ambiance every now and again, but keeping open flames sitting around your house 24/7 is asking for trouble. Anyway, back to the original comment. Not to armchair here but for what it's worth, if you want strength and dimensional accuracy, FDM definitely can do that. The Ender-3 was 5-10 years ago what Bambulabs is going to be in the next 5-10 years, nothing special at the time, but cheap enough and good enough that it's everywhere, and it's gonna stay everywhere even long-past the point where it's competitive. *_Especially_* if you're an actual company that's gaining a direct, monetary benefit from a better printer, (i.e. : you can eat a much higher cost since it's not a hobby-tool, it's a business-tool) you can get some FDM printers that get obscene levels of accuracy. (rivaling resin, yet with the strength of whatever thermoplastic you want to use) Then once you start factoring in complex software optimizations like input shaping, MMUs, etc. it's a whole other ball game. You can do stuff like DIY your own hybrid filaments, (I want to say it was Makers Muse that embedded TPU strands into PLA, creating a hybrid material that was stiff and strong like PLA, but, when loaded to the point of breaking, absorbed almost all of the force due to the internal TPU strands) have complex internal geometries that are impossible to get with any other method, and create parts that are one complete unit yet have different material properties at different points because they were printed with different filaments. (via MMUs) (of course none of those things are really relevant to prototyping a part you intend to injection mold, but the point is that with more modern printers 3d printing can not only compete with other manufacturing methods on dimensional accuracy, strength, etc., it can straight up win by leveraging stuff like MMUs.) When you do go for high accuracy and strength though, you are going to face significantly longer print times, but if the goal is to get a near-perfect prototype so that you can dog food it for a while before committing to mass production, a day or two of printing isn't necessarily a fatal issue.
@@AndrewDasilvaPLT shit that smells bad is bad, FDM can not only mirror but exceed other manufacturing techniques if leveraging it's strengths, and if you're going to click on a video about how a company is leveraging new manufacturing technologies in the experimental stages of their product development lifecycle, you might bother learning to read. You're going to an explicitly highly technical and involved video, and whinging that a comment under that video is technical and involved.
Will you guys be releasing the design for those of us with 3d printers who have already purchased Trex holsters and have the old (un-adjustable clip?) I'd understand if you didn't because you know...running a business. However just didn't know if it would go open source. B/c I was honestly thinking of making my own as I just got my own printer last week!
I have been using 3D printing since I was in college a couple years ago. The SLA 3D printing is something I really recommended here. The product has better surface finish and the material property is more isotropic, so the product has better look, less post-processing and more rigid than ones from FDM I never used FDM, but my school's makerspace produces FDM part for engineering and other stem students. Those FDM part are terrible and fragile. They are okay for private use as non-structural component, but not good for commercial product
The day you can 3D print something and it doesn't look like trash, I'll start printing again! Haha I hand forge most of my claws, which makes them unique and one of a kind. Overall, cost me less than buying em Lol another great video tho!!
Now if only I could find somewhere to work that does this cool stuff. I'm stuck doing CAD in the stupid cabinet industry for now. I hate it. It's mind numbing.
AI + 3D printers will allow basically anyone to design and print nearly object or part that they can think of just be describing it. People won't even need to know how to use the technical software current 3D printing requires.
I would not print with carbon fiber enhanced materials that will be on or near your skin. It will indeed rub off overtime and feel like tarantula hair. Ask me how I know.
Unless that was a closeup shot of purely a prototype, you guys need to really refine your tuning on that part. Did not look like a good print at all. Design for manufacturing with additive plays a massive role in part quality/strength.
As a manufacturing engineer having a 3d printer has been an absolute godsend.
Ours has saved me many times before having to have an uncomfortable conversation with the tool makers. Plus I can print a lot of the things they don't want to have to deal with.
Getting a 3d printer will force you to understand 'design for manufacturing'
Absolutelry true, making a complex part printable is a hell of your own making
It did exactly that for me.
Exactly. I’m a software engineer for 30 years. And now I’m designing hardware for firearms and home tools.
Underrated comment. Very based
Slant3D who runs one of the largest print farms has a great series of videos on exactly this.
Love all the manufacturing and logistics videos.
About 8-10 years ago when 3D printers were only just getting popular i had a home business deisgning go / no-go check gauges for fuel line using solidworks and printed them out in the first ever self leveling 3d printer. Was a lot of fun. I wasn't able to maintain the company but it was fun and profitable for a couple years
I really enjoy these Lab videos. Keep them coming.
Additive manufacturing has completely changed the world of manufacturing at every level.
3D printing is the future of prototyping, I do hope for the day that SLS becomes more efficient and cheaper for the home/individual market. Love playing with my X Max-3 FDM but I really crave the SLS.
Yeah, sls or the "T-1000 printers" as I like to call them, are definitely better for printing shells/enclosures and the like. The only thing filament printers can do that sls can't (yet) is multicolored printing heh
Desktop sls is soon, i dont remember which company was making it but they had ads ip on youtube for the prototypes
@@3nertia Actually HP MultiJet Fusion has had multicolor available for quite awhile. It's not perfect, but it does pretty good!
@@epicfortnitekid8536 do you mean micronics? they were acquired by formlabs and stopped development.
I've been waiting for you guys to produce an adjustable claw for so long, as soon as you announced it I ordered it immediately.
3d printing is the way
Glad to see you here ;)
@@HoffmanTactical 🥂 Myyy brotha!
It’s super safe in these comments . Your a legend hoffman
Injection molding is only cheaper in the 10,000 plus units range, plus it is mostly only made outside of the US.. You can't just count the per unit price, because you have a mold that is $10,000 pulse just for one and it will need replaced again... Gotta think about all the costs.
1:00 I have been using this claw for about a year now since i got it on a replacement holster. I would recommend, its the small details that add up to make a good product. As always, thank you Isaac!
I noticed several mentions of the floor space taken up by the nylon printer. About how often do y'all re-configure layout to eliminate wasted space?
Also I know y'all use lean, do y'all also use 5S?
Currently using a Formlabs SLA resin printer at work. It’s reduced our iterative development time from weeks to days
That iteration speed is fantastic. We were printing prototypes with MK machining, and they were doing great, and the turnaround time was very fast, but they could never print and ship as fast as something that's just right by your desk.
@@isaacbotkintrexBeing able to soft launch product without committing to hard tooling has saved us from so many headaches or settling for a suboptimal design because the injection mold is already cut.
I print out little toys and figures for my kids with regular PLA. That stuff is not easy to break.
I think there is a standard, in general that standard is the ender3 for the individual. They are affordable, mod-able, and those are the guides you will find most commonly for setup and troubleshooting.
Get an ender3 if you want to spend more time troubleshooting why prints are failing than actually printing. Spending even $50 more will get you a more capable, less frustrating machine out of the box.
@@jensenmiller6410 but you CAN trouble shoot , because there are about a million people using it and making guides.
Bambu X1C my dudes
@@apo617 what do you like about it? You could buy like 8 creality ender 3s for the price of the X1C
@@slappy0079 bro, the shit just works.
I've loved watching the evolution of the TREX company. You guys are crushing it. God, family, community. I applaud businesses built on such things. Stay well, stay safe. Thanks for the great content.
Got one months ago with my replacement g43x holster on a warranty RMA when my legacy sidecar cracked, it's pretty sweet, and I was like I really hope they make these in mass in the future to update my other holsters. It appears the time has come.
additive manufacturing is the way of the future, there is no argument.
*Fantastic engineering*
A simple solution that allows maximum adjustability.
nearly $55k for the full Formlabs setup seen in the video. Want so bad!
I love it. Really it's amazing the amount of work and effort the company is doing. I hope the best for you guys.
I'm glad to see 3D printing become embraced by more companies. Bravo!
Printing your own equipment is wavy asf. Hooolyyyy.
We run a 3D printing service using SLS and MJF machines, so it was super cool to see how this technology has helped you guys!
It's like engineering in god mode.
Honestly it's the most fascinating thing I've ever seen, and it only gets better watching people 3D print tools to make things that they are 3D printing. It reminds me of watching welders build their own tools to do welding jobs.
I saw lots of cool additive machines at IMTS this year. A company had a lathe that could build up metal and do the finish turning all with one setup. Another one was doing a shell of plastic then filling the inside with epoxy.
The CLAW!
Movie reference...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of that😂
Toy story!
The Claw decides who prints and who shows.
Jim Carrey or Cary Elwes? 🙃
Bought a Bambu Lab P1S for home use. It alresdy payed for itself. Love it so much
Such a great video, thanks for showing off just how cool 3D Printing is and can be.
I never thought of 3D printing for manufacturing tooling. As that technology matures, I think it could be huge.
A lot of the materials have low tensile strength and high compressive strength, so great for soft jaws, clamps, forming jigs, even hydraulic press forms for thinner sheet metals.
Will there be a holster for the new HK cc9? Thanks
Someone did the math a few years ago and "bambu lab" probably changed the math but you need to make 1,000 plus items before injection became cheaper, the advent of IDEX and material changers has altered the clean up cost to almost zero.
Gabe at Slant3D does this kind of video often. They have 3DP farms.
This sounds like Norm McDonald explaining 3d printing
"So an Ender 3 goes into a podiatrists office..."
T1C's claw works on TREX holsters and has for years.
It feels great, but also... Wrong, somehow?
That nylon powder printer system is really neat! Oh the things I would make if I had access to one of those...
I'm not the 1st one. but glad to be here. proud to comment, and like and what not.
Someone design a wing attachment that also holds a single bullet so you can Barney Fife carry.
In my company we say standards are ways we used to do things before we found a better way.
FormLabs and TREX.. oh boi!
Love the video! Anyone know what that long tall LCD screen is at 6:25 and so on? I'm digging it and want to know what that screen is / what the pattern/program is.
I have wanted do get into 3d printing for a while just haven't had the time or money. I do fab for work so I can see dozens of ways it could help.
Make a claw with a clip on it so it stays aligned if you are wearing pants that don't have a belt. How am I supposed to dryfire in my around the house pants if the claw keeps flopping off of the waistline.
... мужик, твое мировоззрение уважительно.
Editing this in first because it's way more important : 8:55 you should absolutely *_not_* get used to the smell. That smell is hazardous and can have serious long-term consequences. It's not like drinking radium or something where it'll seep into your bones and kill you over the course of decades, but it's more like making it a habit to paint rooms without a respirator on. Can you do it? Yes. Should you? Absolutely not. Being exposed to it a little bit is fine, but "getting used to it" can be incredibly hazardous. Think about it a bit like having a candle out; it's safe enough to set the ambiance every now and again, but keeping open flames sitting around your house 24/7 is asking for trouble. Anyway, back to the original comment.
Not to armchair here but for what it's worth, if you want strength and dimensional accuracy, FDM definitely can do that. The Ender-3 was 5-10 years ago what Bambulabs is going to be in the next 5-10 years, nothing special at the time, but cheap enough and good enough that it's everywhere, and it's gonna stay everywhere even long-past the point where it's competitive.
*_Especially_* if you're an actual company that's gaining a direct, monetary benefit from a better printer, (i.e. : you can eat a much higher cost since it's not a hobby-tool, it's a business-tool) you can get some FDM printers that get obscene levels of accuracy. (rivaling resin, yet with the strength of whatever thermoplastic you want to use) Then once you start factoring in complex software optimizations like input shaping, MMUs, etc. it's a whole other ball game. You can do stuff like DIY your own hybrid filaments, (I want to say it was Makers Muse that embedded TPU strands into PLA, creating a hybrid material that was stiff and strong like PLA, but, when loaded to the point of breaking, absorbed almost all of the force due to the internal TPU strands) have complex internal geometries that are impossible to get with any other method, and create parts that are one complete unit yet have different material properties at different points because they were printed with different filaments. (via MMUs)
(of course none of those things are really relevant to prototyping a part you intend to injection mold, but the point is that with more modern printers 3d printing can not only compete with other manufacturing methods on dimensional accuracy, strength, etc., it can straight up win by leveraging stuff like MMUs.)
When you do go for high accuracy and strength though, you are going to face significantly longer print times, but if the goal is to get a near-perfect prototype so that you can dog food it for a while before committing to mass production, a day or two of printing isn't necessarily a fatal issue.
NGL, TL;DR.
@@AndrewDasilvaPLT shit that smells bad is bad, FDM can not only mirror but exceed other manufacturing techniques if leveraging it's strengths, and if you're going to click on a video about how a company is leveraging new manufacturing technologies in the experimental stages of their product development lifecycle, you might bother learning to read.
You're going to an explicitly highly technical and involved video, and whinging that a comment under that video is technical and involved.
Will you guys be releasing the design for those of us with 3d printers who have already purchased Trex holsters and have the old (un-adjustable clip?)
I'd understand if you didn't because you know...running a business. However just didn't know if it would go open source. B/c I was honestly thinking of making my own as I just got my own printer last week!
This was answered in the video sorry haha
I really wish someone would make a double mag carrier attachment for the Sidecar 2.0 i want to carry 3 mags and balance to holster.
I bought a special edition holster from yall and it has this on it already?
That's how fast we are.
@9:08 did he say twerk on these things, instead of torque?
I desperately need a 3rd belt clip attached to the wing, that would make life so much nicer
3:56
Trucking pays the bills, cad and 3d printing is my release from the mundane. I have so many things to design and can’t find the time
You need to contact slant3d about making stuff.
I have been using 3D printing since I was in college a couple years ago. The SLA 3D printing is something I really recommended here. The product has better surface finish and the material property is more isotropic, so the product has better look, less post-processing and more rigid than ones from FDM
I never used FDM, but my school's makerspace produces FDM part for engineering and other stem students. Those FDM part are terrible and fragile. They are okay for private use as non-structural component, but not good for commercial product
The day you can 3D print something and it doesn't look like trash, I'll start printing again! Haha I hand forge most of my claws, which makes them unique and one of a kind. Overall, cost me less than buying em Lol another great video tho!!
That day is today.
Pretty rad
What car software do you guys use? Solid works?
Fusion 360. Mostly.
Finally, thank you!
Now if only I could find somewhere to work that does this cool stuff. I'm stuck doing CAD in the stupid cabinet industry for now. I hate it. It's mind numbing.
AI + 3D printers will allow basically anyone to design and print nearly object or part that they can think of just be describing it. People won't even need to know how to use the technical software current 3D printing requires.
I'm in the market for a 3D printed but I can't decide on brand and model for a home business.
Made in America 🦅
❤❤❤❤❤. I thought Nylon absorbs water to much. For long term use. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
My professional suggestion…drop all those toys n get a Formlabs SLS Fuse 1+ like we have… 🇺🇸〰️🦅
Thanks for the tip... keep watching!
❤❤❤❤❤liked n commented 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
3D printing? Based.
Give us the stl
Check the video description.
I would not print with carbon fiber enhanced materials that will be on or near your skin. It will indeed rub off overtime and feel like tarantula hair. Ask me how I know.
Unless that was a closeup shot of purely a prototype, you guys need to really refine your tuning on that part. Did not look like a good print at all.
Design for manufacturing with additive plays a massive role in part quality/strength.
We 3D print guns not just tiny parts
First of all lower your voice
@@T.REXLabs 🤣🤣🤣🤣ITS LEGAL WHERE IM AT BRO😎
Second. Ok what did first guy win ?
HMMMMM
its almost like PSR inspired someone lmao
Shouldn't 3d printing be left to "non professionals" like PSR?
😂😜
First one here🤙
proud of ya bud!
@@jakep5121 thanks, it's really all I accomplished today so I appreciate it 🤣
A 3D printer is a solution seeking a problem.
They are seeking more problems all the time!
I hope u don't sell them 3d printed thar part looks thin
PSR > T.REX