LESSON 1.3 · 2:15 · CHAPTER 1 · WHY PRINT BIG
Print time for a car
Print time is printed mass divided by the rate you actually achieve; on a big bed, a car body becomes a few dozen printed parts.
Predict · at 0:39 in the video
500 pounds in 24 hours. What was the effective deposition rate, in kilograms per hour?
About nine and a half. 500 pounds is 227 kilograms. Divide by 24 hours: 9.5 kilograms an hour.
Further reading
This course is our own. These books go deeper.
- The economics of Big Area Additive Manufacturing, Post et al., Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2016
- Additively manufactured carbon fibre-reinforced composites: state of the art and perspective, van de Werken et al., Composites Part A, 2020
About the numbers
Simulations in this lesson are our own. Where a number rests on an assumption or a single source, the video marks it with an asterisk and says where it comes from.
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