The world's first 3D Printer designed to print Carbon Fiber.
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Designed to overcome the strength limitations of other 3D printed materials, the MarkForged Mark One 3D printer is the world’s first 3D printer designed to print composite materials. Now you can print parts, tooling, and fixtures with a higher strength-to-weight ratio than 6061-T6 Aluminum.
Thanks Paul.
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It does the vacuum bagging, mixes the epoxy & everything.
That's a good point Doug. They probably could do that.
I suspect the weave actually is stronger still, particularly in a diagonal pull. I guess we'll have to wait and see. This is a very neat idea in any case. Things will only advance from here.
And for sure, doing a cross-weave as you suggest would probably allow to make some complicated 3D shapes that would be difficult to do with a cloth.
Hi Robert,
Seems like that is just a programming issue to me. Why can't it lay one layer down pulling the fiber left/right and the next layer pulling the fiber front/back? I think weave is mostly just a convenience as you can handle fabric whereas you can't very well handle free unwoven strands if you are laying things up, but if the strands are oriented in two directions in layers in the manufacturing process that seems equal to laying up with a weave. After all there are lots of tubes, etc. for which the strands are wound in during manufacture, aren't there?
It`s getting there. I`ve been holding off from 3D printing until there is a material that would suit my needs.
I agree. Without the weave I would rather just use a plastic material. Most printers with good quality extruders which can handle higher temps can already extrude this material whether it has been tested or not. If they make it in a filament, and you can extrude it, then most likely your printer can print it. I would like to try this material to see how strong it really is.
Nevermind, I see on the website that it's long-fiber. But still, without a weave... the strength would only be in a single direction. I'd think cross-grain, the strength would be not much better than plastic.
Huh... I'm really interested in this. Is it true long-strand fiber? Or is is just chopped fiber in a plastic slurry?