Frankly, I would have expected Dremel to come out with a small desktop CNC, not a 3D printer. Given the price of the Roland iModela, Dremel would probably have offered a much better, bigger and stronger machine for the same price.
Trying to design and build a CNC machine to function as an appliance is very, very difficult. There are simply to many factors that impact how well the machine would work. A person who writes g-code for a milling machine has to be able to understand how it will work - balancing the motors, speeds and feeds, materials, and working head. A 3D-printer requires very little, if any, skill on the part of the person using the machine. They can just load pre-packaged items, if they feel li
I'm sure he could ask, so you've never used a CNC machiene?
3-D printing, while it can be challenging, is just a matter of how fast the head can move while "printing". With CNC you have to know how big of a bite your bit can take out of your current material, what the stress loads are at different speeds and it changes while going around corners. How big of a bite you can take with your bit based on the bit, material, and speed of rotation.
Now for some additional fun. Just because you can make it work on
Plenty of cheaper (and probably better) options from Makerbot etc.
Now it it came is at a $400 price point it would be a whole different discussion.
You're not their target market. There are a lot of old-school tinkerers who are familiar with Dremel - and a lot of people who are familiar with Home Depot - who know nothing about 3D printing. Many of those folks would be very interested in 3D printing if they knew about it. So here we are.
I think Dremel is going to raise the stature of 3D printing in an entirely new market and that will quite frankly help every other company out there in this space.
"Dremel 3D pre-sale starts Sept. 18, 2014, on homedepot.com and amazon.com, with in-store availability at select The Home DepotĀ® stores in early November."
That's a WOW right there.
I've been through the PC boom in the late 70's and the Internet boom in the 90's. That "no one points at 3D printers" is no more true than when it was said about PC's in 1979 or the Internet in 1994. (I heard that exact sentiment expressed those years).
This is what a boom looks like right before it goes off.
Frankly, I would have expected Dremel to come out with a small desktop CNC, not a 3D printer. Given the price of the Roland iModela, Dremel would probably have offered a much better, bigger and stronger machine for the same price.
From personal experience..
Trying to design and build a CNC machine to function as an appliance is very, very difficult. There are simply to many factors that impact how well the machine would work. A person who writes g-code for a milling machine has to be able to understand how it will work - balancing the motors, speeds and feeds, materials, and working head. A 3D-printer requires very little, if any, skill on the part of the person using the machine. They can just load pre-packaged items, if they feel li
I'm sure he could ask, so you've never used a CNC machiene?
3-D printing, while it can be challenging, is just a matter of how fast the head can move while "printing". With CNC you have to know how big of a bite your bit can take out of your current material, what the stress loads are at different speeds and it changes while going around corners. How big of a bite you can take with your bit based on the bit, material, and speed of rotation.
Now for some additional fun. Just because you can make it work on
Plenty of cheaper (and probably better) options from Makerbot etc.
Now it it came is at a $400 price point it would be a whole different discussion.
You're not their target market. There are a lot of old-school tinkerers who are familiar with Dremel - and a lot of people who are familiar with Home Depot - who know nothing about 3D printing. Many of those folks would be very interested in 3D printing if they knew about it. So here we are.
I think Dremel is going to raise the stature of 3D printing in an entirely new market and that will quite frankly help every other company out there in this space.
"Dremel 3D pre-sale starts Sept. 18, 2014, on homedepot.com and amazon.com, with in-store availability at select The Home DepotĀ® stores in early November."
That's a WOW right there.
I've been through the PC boom in the late 70's and the Internet boom in the 90's. That "no one points at 3D printers" is no more true than when it was said about PC's in 1979 or the Internet in 1994. (I heard that exact sentiment expressed those years).
This is what a boom looks like right before it goes off.