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Thanks all for the reactions.

I’m surprised to receive these reactions on my question on my first day on 3D Hubs.

First at all, I want to clear out one important thing… I really need this Objet30 Pro for my professional life.

I have my own management company and do I deliver technical consulting for companies as Bosch, Procter & Gamble, Deufol,… From my management company do I run a company with 35 employers and do we have all type of machines as laser- and plasma cutters, bending,…

In my backyard do I have a nice building from 75m² that my management company rent from myself (these situation is possible in Belgium). In this place do I make prototypes a specially for P & G. I have standing there a CO2 100Watt lasercutter (work surface 600x900mm), D-Router (work surface 600x900mm), cutting machine from Summa, everything for working with acrylate (bending and polish machine, paint dispenser),… and off course the Objet30 Pro.

Every week do I have several jobs for the Objet30 Pro and do these companies pay with pleasure the higher price for non serial work or prototyping. If these companies need serial work, do I work together with a company that print in SLS (the start-up is higher , but the the price is around 10 times cheaper when you work with series).

I almost bought a Fortus 380mc, but also then is the price to high if you work with series).

By the way, I bought the Objet30 Pro (600 running hours) with a Quill Vogue washing Station and a lot of materials from a company in Suisse with financial problems for 14.000€. I saw the invoice from a year before from 54.000€.

So the point of my question was, if I see something nice on Thingiverse, Grabcad, Pinshape,… and I print it, I realize (to late sometime) that a gadget can cost between 5 and 80€. Actually does not matter, because the company pays everything. But the businessman in me fight with it…

So if there is a way to pay less for the materials, will I print more gadgets for my daughter from almost 2 years.

For this reason did I bought a Leapfrog Xeed. So that I hopefully can print gadget for her in the future.

I received this printer last Friday and was it yesterday a real fight to print something stupid small. And then you realize more the different in prices for the 3D-printers or the materials.

More important, was my second question:

What’s the best way after removing the support, to manipulate the surface?

What are the experiences of other users from Polyjet?

When I bought the Objet30 Pro, where there samples with the printer with a smooth surface, also the Vero clear.

For example, how can I give the printed object in annex, a smooth surface or a transparent view?

I hope everyone understands my reaction, because my English is not so good.

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A ‘serf’ can’t afford Objets. Happy printing hacker… : (

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In options, choose ‘glossy’. ( You can right-click this too ). With gloves, use sodium hydroxide to get a better surface finish after you have removed the support material with power washer. Veroclear does seem to have a cloudy appearance. I’d like to be able to eradicate that too.

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Thanks,

But the problem when you use “glossy”, is that you always have one side with support.

And also the hangover points (I don’t know if this is correct English) are covered with support.

The surface between glossy and the parts covered with support are so different, that I almost not print glossy.

We will try tomorrow the NaOH.

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I hear what you are saying about the glossy function. There is the option of an epoxy elastic acrylic varnish but it’s expensive and hell to use. Please also, if you use NAOH make sure you dilute it with the correct amount of water and be aware that it is caustic ( so no daughter around! ). I don’t want you to have any misfortune from my recommendations.

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Yep… it’s working perfect!

A piece that I made a few weeks ago in Vero blue, was after weeks still feeling spongy.

Because it was so spongy, was it soon dirty.

I placed the piece in NaOH last night and it’s perfect now.

I will receive one of these day’s a polish-machine for in the jewelry-sector, with different types of polish material, so that I can give it (hopefully) a smooth surface. Especially to reduce the different between the surface from the smooth printed surface and the parts that used support in one printed model.

I’m not sure yet, to place the square with the ball in to NaOH. I love the results already, but I think that it can be better…

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For international users this is compounded by the shipping/courier fees on a 3kg cartridge containing 1kg of usable material. Combine that with the local agent mark-up (exclusive trade agreement) and the material costs are certainly disproportionate to those of alternative vendors. While the print quality of Stratasys prints is undoubtedly superior, I attribute this largely to the machines themselves, so a 20% higher material fee would be more reasonable.

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i have 2 x ABS P430?

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Pop me a mail Nickysmit38@gmail.com

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Hi mate How did you hack the objet30 pro? Cheers

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How did you hack the objet30? Cheers

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Hi,

I don’t know a third party source for model material for the Objet but for the Support-Material.

Look at

The support material is packed in Eden-cartons and I refill my Objet bottles out of these Eden-packages. I’m completely satified with this cheaper material. Also offered at ebay in Germany.

But to use such a third party material is on the user’s own risk! Don’t forget.

Greetz,

Edgar

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Hello what can you so to recicle the plates ?