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Why is it so expensive, 500 per part? You said that you can lower the cost 25-40% by doubling layer thickness. From that I infer that the printing time is a la
by Gravityloss 11y ago
Why is it so expensive, 500 per part?
You said that you can lower the cost 25-40% by doubling layer thickness.
From that I infer that the printing time is a large part of the total cost?
- pencerw 11y agoI go into the pricing in a bit more detail in the older post (http://pencerw.com/feed/2015/3/15/3d-printing-titanium-and-the-bin-of-broken-dreams http://pencerw.com/feed/2015/3/15/3d-printing-titanium-and-t...) but the gist is that 1) the powder is expensive, and 2) the machines are really expensive, and 3) the people who know how to run them are rare and highly prized. Essentially, reducing printing time (by doubling layer thickness) means that you don't need to amortize as much of the cost of the machine during the build.