I am trying to get a LCD enclosure 3D Printed, it is 440.40 x 220.20mm and 25mm deep. I am struggling to find people who can print within these dimensions, seems like most Makerbot printers are good at printing small objects. Any one have experience or know of cost effective printing hubs that can manage these dimensions, location is not important as long as they ship.
I have had quotes from $300 - $800, I was looking to keep it under $175 mark…
It may be a good idea to use different manufacturing methods. 3D Printing is good for smaller objects that need to have small details. You could always laser cut (part of) the enclosure, which will undoubtedly cost you less and will likely give you the results you’re after.
When you’re using 3D printing you’re paying per volume of filament, so more volume will simply cost you more. Remember that 3D printing is not the only way to make things!
Id check to see if you can break up the parts into smaller pieces to make it easier to print. Also, that 25 mm depth is probably contributing a lot to that volume cost - is it completely necessary?
My Big Delta can do 330mm round and 465mm high, but with this item the two big dimensions need to be flat on the bed so I think an different manufacturing process is the solution, probably laser cut aluminium and then folded. The reason there aren’t too many machines that can do this is a cartesian based printer needs to be much more rigid to maintain the resolution once things get big, this increases the size and cost of all linear components. If you really want to print it, as others have said split it into two parts but I still think other manufacturing process’ are the solution. Cheers Jason
440 would juuust fit in my DH02 printer. The bed is 250x250 so that’s not an issue. I’m not sure about your target price though. I’d have to see the model to do the calculations.
