yes, I know this.. I thought about something more informative and less "marketing oriented" though...
thanks anyway
Andreas
Unfortunately at the moment there is no video or photo of the machine actually working. And very few photos of some prototype I assume. Really kind of concerning at this point if they plane on launching in a couple months like they claim.
There's no real info
There's no real photos
There's no real communication.
I believe this will eventually be a printer but they wont be getting my money anytime soon.
It would be because of the soluble filament you can use as support material. I have several prints that I can do on the m200 but as for removing the supports, well, that’s not gonna happen unless I break my prints apart.
Doesn't the designation "HEPA" define the specs for particle size? Of course, that assumes that the filter complies with the standard, which may not be the case for imports.
The Inventure has the potential of really upping the quality of the Zortrax 3D Printing System by providing a soluble raft/scaffolding capability. Although the Zortrax Team has been remarkably closed-mouth about the Inventure, I have deduced a few features that I believe we will see.
The machine will have dual extruders, one for Z-Ultrat Plus and one for soluble support. It will use Z-Ultrat Plus exclusively, at least at first. This decision to offer only Z-Ultrat, at least to start with, is a confirmation of my experience with the Zortrax Printer. I have experimented with all of the Zortrax filaments and find that I have the best results as far as consistency, quality and finish with Z-Ultrat.
I also think that launch is imminent because the latest Z-Suite 1.5.0 now has Inventure capability. We just have to be patient because Zortrax, just like us, won't launch Inventure until they are sure that all of the prototype challenges are solved. You only get one chance to make a first impression!
For high quality, I use SLA printing. It won't ever match that. I prefer FDM for larger sized models. Ultrat works well. Although it warps too etc. Dual heads could be incorporated into the Zortrax; just like other competing FDM printers in the same league without re-inventing the wheel/printer. Most of the kickstarter contributors here seem to prefere printing at mid range resolution qualities to ,09 anyways. Having H20 disolvable material is neat but the real engineering only exists in making it into a dual head system.
The Zortrax inventure has longer print times, I compared a Zortrax M200 splice which took 13 hours and the inventure took 18 hours and 30 mins So 5 and half hours extra.
Really? Must admit I wasn't aware of this. So there are two extruders but only one hotend/nozzle? Is there any printer available which got this to work?
I mean, I’m aware you can buy this experimental hotend for RepRaps but I never saw somebody reporting success with it.
I would assume a single nozzle resolves some alignment issues but brings up a whole lot of new problems.
E.g. I could imagine that retract moves could get a little complicated. Letting aside that the two filaments need to behave even more identical
regarding temperature etc. Which at least up to now always as an issue for HIPS or PVA filaments. Where I assume Inventure uses Hips or did they come up with something new?