From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 4/6/2025 5:45 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vsv2fp$24fdh$2@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > I picked up a Creality Otter 3D scanner a while back.  I just opened it   
   > yesterday and tried it out.  The scan software didn't work on my   
   > everyday CAD/CAM design computer.  Its an older i7 with an Intel 4600   
   > video card that works just fine for 3d modeling with 64 bit ViaCAD, and   
   > has no issues keeping up with CamBam and ViaCAD simultaneously.   
   >   
   > -----------------------------   
   > "Fascinating", said Spock.   
   >   
   > Many craft fair and flea market vendors here sell 3D printed monsters   
   > etc from Thingiverse. One told me the people who profit most aren't the   
   > sellers but those who license the designs. There's hardly ever a useful   
   > and practical item in their displays.   
   >   
   > Almost everything I dream up can be made on a lathe or mill, of course I   
   > don't often dream of marine invertebrates, beyond an occasional   
   > Architeuthis. My doctor's idea of up-the-system individuality is socks   
   > with a Kraken on them, and I was at a beach the day the remains of one   
   > washed ashore, but too far away to see that the small group of people   
   > was looking down at something.   
   > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Squid_plum_island.gif   
   >   
   > I bought some bake-hardening polymer clay for free-form shapes or   
   > impressions but rarely use it, I need the strength of metal.   
   >   
      
   SCULPY!  Lots of tackle makers use the stuff to make masters.  Others   
   hand carve, and yet others Frankenstien pieces and piece together with a   
   hot knife.  My only "practical" use for 3D printing I came up with was   
   to print master molds to make silicone molds to cast resin work pieces.   
   Catalyzed resin is way tougher than most (99.999%) 3D print resins and   
   plastics filament prints.   
      
   > The current project is a draw plate or roller pair to make replacement   
   > yagi TV antenna elements from aluminum flashing. I can almost form the   
   > open-seam tubes around a transfer punch with a soft hammer and anvil   
   > after roughing the curve on the press brake. They are fragile enough to   
   > not damage the shingles when blown down.   
      
   And to think we all made fun of Radio Shack back in the day...   
      
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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