From: Deanda, Jerrold (jerrold.deanda@lmco.com)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 19:39:39 EEST
Wow. Making a zero thickness wall is even harder than drilling a zero
diameter hole.
-jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Chertok [mailto:chertok22@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 8:38 AM
To: rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
Subject: "Zero Wall Thickness" and RP Materials
List,
Can anyone offer their experience with respect to RP model manufacture with
"zero wall thickness"?
I have a "self-intesecting" model which I produced in SLA about three years
ago and it seems to have held up really well, despite the fact that the
model comes to an "X" where there is simply two lines (is this what I should
be calling "zero wall thickness"?). There is a little bit of "sag" below
these areas where the model appears to have been oriented "down", however
where these same geometries were oriented "up" the model was produced
perfectly.
I suppose gravity affects the models where there is geometry such as this?
Should I expect SLA to perform better than ZCorp in this respect? i.e. could
I get away with not offsetting a surface (and gaining some thickness) for
SLA, whereas I should only send out an offset surface for ZCorp Plaster?
Also, I believe Charles mentioned something about having the "bleed" on or
off. And was wondering whether there are controls that would allow a machine
operator to help such models along.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
Universal Joint
Full Service Design and Construction
Jonathan Chertok. Principal
Austin Texas [512] 407 9628
Buildings + Digital Manufacturing
_________________________________________________________________
Share your photos without swamping your Inbox. Get Hotmail Extra Storage
today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Sat Jan 17 2004 - 15:18:10 EET