Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by jrowley on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:49PM
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Ponoko does laser cutting for all types of materials and 3D printing as well.
Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by zokier on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:01PM
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Shipping kills Ponoko for international audiences.
Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:48PM
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:) I think a couple of other stuff we do are good too. Like turnaround times and trust me, the quality is great too...
Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by zokier on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:53PM
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I'd be personally interested in aluminium (or other more lightweight material), but iirc cutting it is not so simple as steel.
Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by jonnycowboy on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:41PM
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Laser cutting aluminium is quite a bit harder, the cost is higher as the laser needs to work more to cut (due to heat absorption).
Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by chromaton on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:54PM
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Consider trying waterjet cutting for aluminum instead.
Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:44PM
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totally another field.... and honestly we are not experienced or equipped properly to do aluminium cutting.
Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase...
by tombrossman on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:09PM
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Aluminium is an excellent material for printing photos onto, and when I saw this it was the first thing I thought of. Too bad you don't offer that material yet because you could make some really cool art to hang on your wall which would look fantastic and last for a very long time. Here is one example of a supplier with a very limited selection of shapes: http://aluminyze.com/ Now imagine having them print a big skyline photo of a city and shipping it to you to have the sky cut out. It would look pretty amazing, and generating the vector path wouldn't bee too difficult if the image had suitable contrast (or the object in silhouette).
Will you be offering sheet plastic and/or card too?