Hi I'm new here but live in chiang mai
I'm trying to get into 3d printing as I know there's very very little of it happening in thailand.
Anyone interested in 3d printing or scanning as a hobby or more drop me a line at <contact by PM>

With China right next door mass producing every gadget in the entire world, I am curious what you think you would do with 3D printing? The cost of the raw materials makes designing anything not cost effective on such a small scale.

We are machining plastics on CNC lathes so naturally I sometimes look into 3D printing but the cheap solutions have bad resolution and don't get it smooth and the plastic they use has horrible mechanical properties.

The 3D printer which are really good are complete out of the budget I would spend just for fun without having any business idea.

So I am not interested but will follow the news with interest....

With China right next door mass producing every gadget in the entire world, I am curious what you think you would do with 3D printing? The cost of the raw materials makes designing anything not cost effective on such a small scale.

for some spare parts for vintage cars, only the mold cost us 1000 USD.

If you have 2000 customer it is just 5 Cent per piece, but if there is only 1 person needing it that part may cost 1200 USD for me to produce (which is extreme cheap).

On the 3D printer it would be a fraction of the costs.

Plenty of off the shelf 3D printers in the US for less than $2,000 that people are already using to make auto parts. Jay Leno, the famous ex TV host, has been 3D printing parts for his vintage car collection. Look it up on Youtube

there are sizable 3D services already in Bangkok, yet most are based on low-cost low resolution 3D printing machines.

depend on application, if you need the 3D printer for 3D visualisation, than it is very effective. if you aim for industrial precision 3D prototyping, you may need high precision 3D printing ( 200 dots/mm ), then it is a completely different cost/benefit concept.

sometimes CNC solution still a reliable old-school approach.

buy one and play , you can get one for about $400 ready to go.....

the only way you are going to learn is to use it , make mistakes and try again

there are 100s of files you can practice with on the net ,modify some and try again,

cheap 3D printing is just starting , 5-10 years from now it will do amazing things

Thx for the info guys

Not really trying to compete with china or anyone just thought there might be like minded individuals in chiang mai area wanting to get their ideas out there.

Plenty of off the shelf 3D printers in the US for less than $2,000 that people are already using to make auto parts. Jay Leno, the famous ex TV host, has been 3D printing parts for his vintage car collection. Look it up on Youtube

the printer Jay Leno has costs 2 million baht in Thailand.

Hi I know the original post was some time ago, But, recently xyzprinting the Korean 3d printer manufacture has opened a plant in Thailand. I have a pet project that requires a snap together box 7mm x 5cm x 7mm, in good quality plastic, with a nice finish. I have only seen cheap rough products, to me it would appear that to get the quality you need the big boys product. is there anyone out there who knows something about this technology.. naysayers and bashers one pace step back, close your mouths and give your sage advice to the next guy along the bar, say something positive.

The finish has a lot to do with speed and how good the filament is

3D printers are always going to have "steps" for each layer , the better printers have more layers per inch

then the quality of the filament , most use cheap stuff which has lots of junk in it ,

But most of the cheaper machines are SLOW , real SLOW , so they make a part overnight if it does not crash !

Ask the big dollar printer company if they can make a sample for you , as you might want to lease a machine

Wo is me its like the world of MicroSoft again: I took the plunge, purchased a 3D printer xyz Da Vinci Pro, built in Thailand...

took a week to do the overnight journey, un boxed, to cut or not to cut the tie wraps on feeder cables and feeder tube, well the tie wrap was pulling the feed over to the left so I cut stood the tube nearly up right, leveled the bed, ran thru the destrutions and selected sample, machine had a l o n g think and the message that the material was not suported, tried to sign up to WiFi saw my SSID selected, password, wouldn't sign on...Old Ms Laptop USB Disk install went thru the lot again, print Heart / Key Ring .... OK loaded nothing worked Mac laptop via USB old Driver missing....

like my youth, looks like retirement will be the frustrating life, of nothing works out of the Box..... I would like to print off a pair of Glasses if anyone can point me to one they have done and it works...