{"id":853,"date":"2012-11-02T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2012-11-25T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T02:31:45","slug":"3d-printing-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"3D printing and support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So with 3D printing finally gaining main stream awareness I get a lot of requests to explain exactly what it is. People generally quickly get the slicking up a model into layers and building up the model a layer at a time. What tends to be harder to visualize is the use of support.<\/p>\n<p>Support is used to support the print material during printing. It is then removed after printing is completed, enabling impossible looking parts to be printed. I think the best example is the artwork of Bathsheba (http:\/\/www.bathsheba.com).<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-853 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?attachment_id=854'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bathsheba_metatron_p1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?attachment_id=855'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Bathsheba_metatron_p2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?attachment_id=924'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Stratusys_Printing.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>What you see here are two pictures of the Metatron model, both with and without support. The support is the black material and it is dissolved away in a solvent tank. The white material the model is made from is just ABS plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Some printers are built the model from a powder which is blown away once the model is done being printed &#8211; but most of the fused deposition modeling use this style of support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with 3D printing finally gaining main stream awareness I get a lot of requests to explain exactly what it is. People generally quickly get the slicking up a model into layers and building up the model a layer at a time. What tends to be harder to visualize is the use of support. Support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","tag-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}