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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Our quoting engine needs a mesh file to estimate price from. As well, all of the 3D printer compiles need the same... It should be easy to export your model as a STL or OBJ though!
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
I agree, but at the end of the day you need some estimate of what's being manufactured to produce a price. Otherwise, we'd only be able to give you some rough prices per g of material, print hr, and labor... We very our infill dep
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Thats' a great point. We've actually done a handful of projects like that. Here's an example: http://blog.voodoomfg.com/2016/06/10/a-life-size-human-model... In many cases, when you cut up a mo
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
The material we use, PLA, is actually biodegradable! It would take a while naturally, but can be done easily with industrial equipment. We also recycle all of our scrap material back into filament :)
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
We're just doing FDM today, but in the future we plan on expanding to other 3D printing technologies (i.e. SLA, SLS, etc), and eventually even non 3D printing tech like milling or laser cutting. If you don't want to submit a form
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
We are definitely cheaper! I don't know if you compared to the Shapeways PLA option, but that's actually us doing the fulfillment ;) We're cheaper than other 3D printing services because we took a different approach and use l
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Great question. It was for a few reasons. A lot of YC is still what happens during the batch (Tuesday dinners, office hours, demo day, etc), and we felt those were things that could benefit us. As well, a lot of VCs aren't used to &quo
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
What do you use the parts for? We'll be introducing medium format printers into our factory this quarter, but they will be more like 300 x 300 x 450mm. Would definitely be interested in what you're doing though, because we're
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Definitely in our roadmap! Until then, we can also print with PLA++ (a stronger PLA), and have done some projects in nylon if that would work for you.
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Looking forward to hearing more!
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
We look at object SA, V, and geometry and without slicing estimate print time and material usage. From there we factor in other costs such as machine time, labor, and packing and shipping. We don't compare to injection molding to calcu
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Thanks! You can check out some case studies on our website ( https://voodoomfg.com/case-studies ). Also, our Instagram account has a bunch of product photos ( https://www.instagram.com/voodoomfg/?hl=en ).
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
haha, definitely exotic, but we've actually printed with an algae filament before. It smelled kind of weird printing! What are you interested in making? Feel free to shoot me an email at jonathan@voodoomfg.com if you want to discuss fu
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
We are able to get more consistent prints than a lot of people using their own printer, mostly because we've been able to build a lot of process around maintain and operation. So, for a given part, we'd make a sample for you to ge
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Quotes are based on the specific model. You can upload a STL or OBJ to our site to see what the price is for our Direct Print service (low volume). For high volume orders, sometimes the price is slightly different since we quote more accura
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Thanks! What type of materials do you want or need?
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by jschwartz11 10y ago
Hi Hacker News! I'm one of the co-founders of Voodoo Manufacturing ( https://voodoomfg.com/ ) in the current YC W17 batch. Voodoo Manufacturing is an automated 3D printing factory capable of producing anywhere from 1-10,
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Launch HN: Voodoo Manufacturing (YC W17) – AWS for Manufacturing(voodoomfg.com)
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Make a custom 3D printed coffee stopper(crushtomizer.com)
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The 3D Printing Factory Next Door(wsj.com)
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Life-size 3D printed human model(blog.voodoomfg.com)
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GE Seeks to Drive 3D Printing Future with $1.4B in Deals(bloomberg.com)
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Largest ever production run of 3D printed prosthetic hands(qz.com)
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Under Armour opens advanced manufacturing Lighthouse(youtube.com)
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The future of 3D-printed prosthetics(techcrunch.com)
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Voodoo Manufacturing introduces flexible TPU plastic for 3D printing(3ders.org)
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A Life-Size Human Model, 3D Printed on 88 Printers in Under 24 Hours(blog.voodoomfg.com)
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Will Food 3D Printing Really Become a “Thing”?(blog.voodoomfg.com)
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Video: How plastic toys are painted(youtube.com)
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Disney Research makes full color 3D models with computational thermoforming(3ders.org)
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