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It's amazing what you can do with a bit of clear and white resin. Can you guess how this anatomical hand model was 3D printed on Form 4?

Print a shell of the hand in clear, print the bones in white, put the bones into the shell, fill the rest of the shell with clear resin, then cure the clear with a UV light?

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Eric S.

Supervisor, Engineering Documentation and Digital Support at Water Pik, Inc.

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I'm guessing it was printed in clear with cavities where the bones are and then white resin was poured in and cured.

Orville Wright IV

Additive Evangelist | 3D Printing Expert | Shaping the Future Layer by Layer

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I'm thinking the clear outer hand was printed with a negative space where the bones are, then filled with the white resin and finally cured.

Kezia Joy Ugay

Engineer Professional | R&D, Design, Quality in Med Device, Aerospace, or Semiconductor Industry

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i believe 1. the white bones were printed first (maybe PLA filament). 2. then, a mold (printer in silicone or even filanent again) for clean resin was used printed with a empty cavity (top and bottom) 3. the white bones were positioned inside and clear resin was poured. 4. when dry, the product is done. 🤔 let me know if I can join the Formlabs team 😂😄 I am open to work. 😄👍🏾

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LINGFENG DENG

6 Years of 3D printing R&D experience, stereolithography 3D printing foundational technology development in leading company.

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print the clear part and inject the white part with fluid material then solidfy it

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Rishabh Garikiparithi

Manufacturing Eng @ Tesla || ex-Honda || Human Powered Vehicles Design Team

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I don't think the bones were printed. Once the hand was printed, the bones were some sort of thermoset that was poured into the hand-cup and then cured. This way the bones can have complex undercut shapes as shown here

I an going to guess with a developing resin technology with dual resin curing in layers from the wrist area up through fingers. This tech is evolving very quickly

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Dan Joerger

Looking to advance my career in metal additive

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It is two STL files. One of the bones one of the skin over laid in Magics or some program printed at the same time. We did this years ago at Morris but we would scan the bones say 10x to make them over cure in SLA so you could see them through the single scanned skin.

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Mohamed Dinary

PHD Student at University of Nottingham

2w

I can make you one on the Form 2 😊

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