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While you end up with an acrylic model, this should be suitable for lost-wax style casting. Being able to create an unpixilated identical or scaled copy of a mo
by stubish 8y ago
While you end up with an acrylic model, this should be suitable for lost-wax style casting. Being able to create an unpixilated identical or scaled copy of a model will be fantastic for fine art sculpture (or destroy the industry, if copies become too easy to make). Just take your acrylic model, attach casting channels, cover in ceramic, dry, pour in your bronze, cool, crack, trim, patina, ship. Avoid all of the fiddly mold making and wax finishing completely.
- fredley 8y ago> or destroy the industry I don't think the fine art sculpture 'industry' is affected at all by the ease of making copies.
- mkeeter 8y ago[disclaimer: I work at Formlabs, a 3D printing company] This is already happening for jewelry, digital dentistry, and medical applications – you can buy specialized materials for investment casting. For example, here's our blog post on casting jewelry from resin prints: https://formlabs.com/blog/introducing-castable-wax-resin-jewelry-3d-printing/ https://formlabs.com/blog/introducing-castable-wax-resin-jew...
- stubish 8y agoLooking forward to scaling things up beyond teeth, earphones and jewelry. All very promising though, and if the pixilization is solved that is excellent (one of the foundrys here invested in additive printing systems about a year ago, which then need the artist or laborers to resurface with wax before casting). I imagine cost will certainly be a factor for larger systems (say pieces 20-60cm height), both machinery and resins, because the profit margins are very tight until you hit the big time. Is the waste castable wax resin reusable?