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Flinders Innovation Centre

On the 21st of March 2017 I started a full time job at the Flinders Innovation Centre - New Venture Institute, Tonsley as Operations Assistant! This role primarily focuses on running and maintaining one of the most advanced 3D printing systems in South Australia - the Stratasys Objet260 Connex. It's absolutely unreal and with a price tag of $250,000 and material cartridges expensive enough to buy a few low end FDM 3D printers you would expect that the quality would be amazing... And it certainly is with a layer height of 16 microns. To put in perspective, well tuned FDM machines are capable of touching 50 microns and struggle to get down any lower.

The service here at the New Venture Institiute is open to the public so if you want a super high-end print job (admitantly well beyond the capabilities of my printers at home) feel free to send a message to my email - raphael.garcia@flinders.edu.au - and I'll give you a quote for your parts. We run a cost-recovery model here and with the ability to print different materials (from rigid all the way to rubber) all in the same print it's well worth the price.

Disclaimer - I'm keeping my own business (Raphael Garcia 3D Printing and Design) separate from NVI. I focus on NVI from 9am - 5pm and then my own things at other times. As my technology and the technology here at work are completely different, I feel that there isn't much conflict of interest as I can bring clients from one to another.