hell your local university/UAS might do it for cheap as shit

specialy if you diy your cad's

yeah that would be the place to go for cheap cnc if you have the option to

I know mine does free 3d printing

iirc you just have to pay for the material used

we have infinite free 3d printing as students ^^ not even materials cost us dohohohoho

(tho limited to bulk material rolls)

afaik our CNC hours are free to us too

but the material costs is on us

sadly our upcoming sintering machine will not be fully free to use ;_;

it would be fucking dream

option to 3D print with cobalt-chrome mixes and SS

even with -50% (dunno yet hopefully around that or more)

its quite good

You get the materials on 3D print for free?

Damn

Is it that unpopular to print at your place?

<--mechanical engineering student at UAS

so yeah asking price from it would be quite silly

as the plastics dont cost really nothing when bulk ordered by schools

and they might get extra discounts since theyre, y'know, schools

yeah afaik we get some rarer materials (wood,test materials like 10% metal, stuff for our printers for free from local places

just so we test em and invent around them

I should probably play around with the printers we have but I dont know CAD at all

one of my dads colleagues from belarus is a huge 3d printing nerd and he has some neat spray that he uses on prints

it melts the surface a bit and makes them all glossy and nice

it must be acetone

acetone is decent yeah... also jewelwry polishes and dremel

Maybe we need some more motivated people in control then I guess.
Besides the institute's ones, we got two public ones for all students. They run almost 24/7 even while you gotta pay for materials yourself (You can also use your own though)

arent the materials cheap af generally?

20bucks for a roll (750mg)

also, @Tervy do you know any good sites where people can upload their own 3d prints?

maybe I'll try printing a phone stand

Thinking about it

Anyone here tried some cheap chink printing material?

thingivverse is first one to come to mind

there is multiple ones

Kinda tempted now, but don't wanna melt in the university's printer

@Sdeck37 chink stuff is decent for demo/protype shit but not for end product

there is also Yeggi what is decent as is all3dp.com

afaik 4chans /3/ has more info about those