Does anyone know of large scale rp service provider for creatures around 10 ft or 3 meter size, using foam? Need to hear what pricing is like for potential project, 30 life size creatures, all different postures etc, all from CAD, 1 inch to 1 cm tolerance, texture not important. Thanks for any suggestions. Bo Atkinson
I’m curious… Are you opening a Haunted House, or something? I know just the guy to talk to on this forum, I’ll find him, and post again.
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=31642&highlight=rapid+prototyping
The man with the plan is BillRobertson42… Definitely check out the link. Hope it helps.
No, sorry, I can only do small things. Thanks for thinking of me though.
I was poking around on some site recently that had an index of a lot of services and what they specialized in. I’ll try to dig up the link for you.
It was here: http://home.att.net/~castleisland/sb_ci.htm I’m sure there are lots of directories out there though. BTW, routb (a user here on the board) might be able to better direct you.
Hey Bill,
You actually do the small prototyping? What kind of high-tech gadgets are required for that kind of process? Fascinating, I’m sure. Do you have a pantagraph-type thing for replicating real life sculptures? I might like to have somethings made.
Here is my website(it’s mostly a portfolio deal)
www.7pointedstar.com
It is a CNC milling machine, and it also has some scanning abilities as well. If you’re interested in having something made I’d be happy to see if I can help you.
I’ve never heard of any rapid prototyping services that can do objects that large. :eek:
Styrofoam in a large milling machine would be a way to do it.
Did you find anything Bo?
Thanks good people, I really appreciated the update on capabilities of rp today… I must say I’m surprised no one seems headed in the direction of trade off towards low cost rp with low accuracy… Not that it is easy. For the price of a life size, high detail foam bovine, it seems I actually built a giant 60 ft or 20m snapping turtle with a garden inside: http://www.midcoast.com/~bo/TurtleGarden.html
Getting the price lower via low accuracy requirement, increases competitive edge. It becomes salable as opposed astronomic. I’d still love to get work on a derrick supported rp system using concrete to compete with gantry cranes. Yet much more must be possible at a dollar per pound or a euro for a kilo range, at least by use of fire-wire cameras with renaissance-camera-lucida methods. If the masters used this system, in time computers will adapt it through firewire also. I kind of tried to use the system on the turtle except I had no aerial view available and no time to develope good equipment or to stich close areial views together… This turtle is mostly soils but the overall cost was less than 1$ US per kilo (when you subtract associated additional work in the landscaping and 60+ meter wetland, which I personally dug and leveled for them with a rented mini excavator.)
This is my preferred endeavor, to utilize computers for concrete construction, firewire camera lucida… computer aided craftsmanship – http://www.midcoast.com/~bo/CADMERA.html
~Bo