Heated ACEtone removal of mold lines.

[Blindhorizon]

I was curious if anyone has tried this before? I also thought the community would be interested in this. I just got something printed in FUD from shapeways and i wanted to find a way to smooth some mould lines on my item and came across this.

http://www.techhive.com/article/2029498 ... lines.html

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[Dr Mathias]

Acetone vapor- sounds dangerous.

Looks interesting though. I wonder if rivets and such would just melt away.

[mangozac]

Deadmeat30 tried this back when the idea first started doing the rounds (in 2013 by the date on that article). Apparently it can work well but it does require a lot of fine tuning to get the optimal amount of time in the vapour (measured in seconds). The process is a linear trade off between detail sharpness and print mark prominence.