The high-end 3D printer is priced per cubic inch of material used (not volume of part, most parts are 60% or less densely packed). For nonmembers we'll print things for $12/cubic inch of material, members who have taken a training class ($75) may print for $7.50 per cubic inch. Crossover volume is about 17 cubic inches of parts.
I'll have to check if there's some intermediate price for members who have not taken the class and want someone to print things for you; if not, I would print things for $10/cubic inch for Artisan's Asylum members who do not have printer training. The MakerBot is finicky about what it will print, and not always up and running (I like to mess with it, I don't care about making things I just like playing with the printer design), but when it's running you can print for $1 for a small print, $3 for a medium sized print, $5 for a large print. S/M/L is roughly 1/4/9 cubic inches of part volume. Double the prices if you want a solid fill instead of the default. A 4x8 1" sheet of aluminum is 4 or 5 grand (varies wildly), it's also just shy of 500 pounds of aluminum - 1/6 of the weight of my car. :-) Note on membership: It is perfectly fine to get a membership for a month, do a bunch of stuff, let it lapse, and then 6 months later get a membership again for just one month....so you can save up projects. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics & Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > Drew Van Zandt wrote: > > Artisan's Asylum has both a MakerBot (~$1200 3D printer from a kit) and > > a uPrint SE Plus (~$400/month lease). > > Fantastic. > > > > Yes, expensive tools like that are hard to afford on your own. If > > only there were some sort of organization you could join for > > $40 - $125 a month that had some of these expensive tools and > > kept acquiring more. ;-) > > Is use of the 3D printers covered by AA's day price? > > How do you charge for materials? > > > > The CNC aluminum router that can handle a 4'x8' sheet of 1" aluminum > > should be coming online in a month or two... > > Now we're talking... :-) > > What's a 4' x 8' x 1" sheet of aluminum cost? Tiny pieces cost a > fortune at the hardware store. > > You guys are amassing a really nice collection of toys. I wish I spent > enough time on projects to justify a membership. Tempting. > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >
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