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The 3D design you have been learning here, for making slip casting molds, is essential to being able to go to the next level: printing the clay. Many people buy expensive clay 3D printers, for $10k or more, only to realize they don’t know how to draw the designs they want to print! Or that they have underestimated the difficulty of learning the CAD software. Or that they got the wrong kind of printer or one that is too small.
It turns out that an ecoystem of retrofitting 3D printers for clay has evolved. Standard components are now available, like the piston/motor combo shown here. It pumps the clay through a flexible tube to a print head, basically a tiny pugmill that forces it out through a nozzle. But the conversion task is not for the faint hearted. So that’s our next challenge: Make it doable for almost anyone.
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