Dear Gautham,
What is thermocoal, please?
Marshall Burns
gautham@asu.edu wrote:
> Sharon,
> THis may not be what you are exactly looking for, but never the
> less....
> A couple of arts students here from a Visualization & PRototyping
> class used an ingenious way to build big prototyppes out of thermocoal from a
> smaller part on the computer. What they did was they used QuickSlice , a
> software that forms the interface for A FDM machine, to slice up the stl file
> & then projected each layer on to a thermocoal slab pressed against the wall (
> the distance of projection decides the size of the projected slices). They
> then cut along the outlines & stuck the individual layers of cut thermocoal to
> make a scaled up prototype of a tooth.
> It is a simple ingenious way to build scaled prototypes yourself.
>
> gautham
>
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