Hi I am looking to make 2 one off high resolution 3D prints in thin walled wax for casting or hollow plain white plaster. Models are 350mm long and approximately 50mm diameter
one of them is a curved form. Short lead time is essential. Please could you advise as to minimum wall thickness for printing in these materials. They are going to be taken on and cast into metal so high resolution essential.
archicolumn_S.stl (19.4 MB)
Anna_Doric _S.stl (4.66 MB)
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I’m in london. Willing to pay for postage etc if long distance
I’m just North of London.
3D printing in wax is pretty specialised, Anna. For the most part, the printers are made for jewellery and as such, they don’t tend to have big enough build envelopes to print something this big but they do tend to print in very high resolution. The prints could be produced in sections and bonded together.
It all depends what you mean by “high resolution”. I can print your models in sections at 0.1mm layer height, from PLA and they can then be cast using lost-PLA casting, which comes out really well. Not as good as wax printing though, which prints down to 0.005mm.
Send me a message via my hub and I’ll sort something out for you.
Cheers,
AndyL
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Oh! One last point. The arch-shaped model has a button at each end that’s not actually attached to the main mesh. Not sure if that was the intention.
Cheers,
AndyL
Hi Anna, I’ve just started a new 3d printing company (awesome3dprint.co.uk). I’ve got a high resolution machine, I’ll have a look at your files and get back to you.
Matt
Hey @lilly_huber, how about using a link to your Hub profile instead? 
Very cool Marvin btw!
Hi Anna,
I would recon about 3mm from the casting point of view, although you might want to check with whoever is doing that step for you.
We can print this for you in castable resin, and have a few contacts who can cast from this, but each would have to be printed in 2 parts as out printer is small.
Let me know if you would like to do it that way
All the best
Anna
