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Printing a Giant Wrench with a 3D Printer
3D printers can be used to create virtually any object directly from a computer aided design. This video shows how an Objet Connex 3D printer can produce 6 different size adjustable wrenches from 5cm in size to 50 cm in size – all in one print run. All the wrenches contain fully-movable parts and were created with no assembly. The wrenches are made of Objet’s ABS-like material which has the strenght and toughness of ABS-grade engineering plastics. www.objet.com
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Tags: 3d printer, adjustable wrenches, Computer, engineering plastics, printing, Wrench
18 Responses to “Printing a Giant Wrench with a 3D Printer”
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What is the software used in the process? Can any design guy in a shop learn this software in a week? What is the cost of the equipment? Cost per parts..each wrench costs about what? run time per wrench?
But how durable is this thing?, looks like its gonna break with heavy use.
just put it on my wishlist
Good start.. see you in twenty years. I guess gold pressed latinum will be the currency in the galaxy at that time.
you could make some cool dildos with that
i wanna print a gun n go to the bank n do some withdrawals. or print money.
@mapukmapuk dosent break easy
Hello free warhammer!
SPAH SAPPING MAH PRINTER!
The big wrench reminds me of that episode of Fr Ted with the milk man Pat mustard…just saying.
this plastic is so hard? doesn’t break?
Would it be possibke to buy these wrenches ????
How long before, just like Star Trek, we will say ” Tea, Earl Grey, White, no sugar” LOL
By using a scan you’re actually cutting out much of the unique benefits of 3D printing – the ability to effectively produce blind holes and internal supports in a single piece - something that would be very difficult for subtractive forms of manufacturing/prototyping to do..
@Efro4472 ok thanks for the feedback.
@cirusMEDIA A scan can’t penetrate every material and therefore not see it’s internal workings. So, I’d imagine that additional 3D modeling would be required via the computer software.
Welcome to the future. Want a flying car? Let me send it to my print queue for you.
I got a question:
“Can a complex object with moving parts be printed from a scan only?
..or is additional 3D modeling required via the computer???”