My company has a metal 3-D machine room that I hang out in when I am trying to avoid people. It has this white stuff on it that the guy has to brush away. I was wondering if it was like that.
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hmmm, mine doesn’t do that. maybe it’s something that professional or liquid resin printers do.
I’m happy to avoid people all day now that I’m retired.
ETA: metal 3D? so they’re extruding metal? how cool! mine just does plastic!
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Yeah. It’s like a fine powder that the piece sits in. It’s hot when it’s done so that might be why.
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I just read a little about 3d metal printers. Some use a high-power electron beam or a laser to heat the design inside a container of powdered metal. Metal 3D Printing: An Overview of the Most Common Types - 3D Printing
That would explain the powder you see.
Filament printers like mine work more like a hot glue gun; a thin continuous strand of plastic is fed into a hot tip and deposited on the build plate.
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Wow, love this!
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I have an idea. Formulating the plan now…
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I am going to work on mine this coming weekend. Last weekend was a doozie.
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Had a half a day and decided to do this.
Never mind all the smudges please. The black paint took forever to dry!
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wow, fabulous!
kind of looks like stained glass…
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Oh my goodness! This looks AMAZING!!! I love everything about it! How big is it? That is just stunning @curiousfae. You are so talented and creative!
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I made two copies (about 5x7 maybe) of the photo. I cut up one to use as templates for each major piece. Then glued them to the other copy. All the parts are from a magazine. The black paint is fabric paint.
Thanks for the love ya’ll. I’m loving this challenge because I’m a good copy cat. 
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Wow, this is fabulous! Great concept and it turned out so, so well!
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this is so pretty! I must admit my eye keeps going to the lovely yarn (my obsession, LOL)
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Oh my word, I thought it was stained glass.
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I’m loving this thread! I haven’t had the chance to try my hand at the prompts yet, but all these different things are so inspirational!
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wonderful! well done, you 
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It looks incredible!
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