Originally Posted by
snoopyrc
Thank you for posting this. While the performance of this rim is not proven, you have firmly established that it's possible to print a rim even if it's expensive.
When you say that it cost about $200 to print a set, is that from hiring a printing service or is that the price to print it yourself on your own machine?
Also how did you acquire the stl file of the rim? Did you scan it or is it your own design?
$200 is for outsourcing the printing with a company who specializes in high end 3D printing, or most professionals call it 'Additive manufacturing'.
Printing it on my own machine it's $4,20 for one rim.
The rim is a design I made myself, and then exported to STL to print.
3D scanning is also a nice tool, I had a couple 200mm sedans scanned in order to do some research.
Protoform SRS:
Then scaled it down 3 times and printed it:
Forgot to increase the thickness of the rear wing so that unfortunately broke during cleaning.
Both techniques are really improving rapidly and prices are coming down rapidly as well, making it possible for us hobbyists to own such awesome tools.
