Parts will be sent to the client free of charge if the issue is under warranty.
We keep a stocked inventory, so we'll be prepared to send you a new replacement part.
If parts are too large or too complex for customers to install themselves, we will schedule a Cosine engineer to visit your facility to install the part within a week.
While your printer is under maintenance, we will perform your prints at our headquarters. We will send one of our Cosine expert technicians within a one week period. Standardized shipping is covered; however, all we ask of you is to cover materials costs. This warranty will ensure that your prints won't miss their deadline.
Please note that although we ask you to cover costs of materials, be aware that you are normally responsible in covering your own material costs. Standardized shipping will be covered. Faster methods we ask that you cover.
Payments not covered:
Cosine Additive is offering training for everyone who is interested in our printers! For more information, visit our training page.
Cosine is leading the pack in additive manufacturing by integrating our AM1 with a new motion control system. The new 64 Axis motion controller provides faster file uploads, improved stability, and a feature-rich platform for future product upgrades. The new system increases print head acceleration and has positional accuracy of 50nm, improving the print quality. If you're interested in upgrading your AM1, contact sales@cosineadditive.com.
Features
After thousands of hours of run time, we've learned a few things we'd like to improve on our AM1. When we added the pellet feed system, we increased the load on our gantry significantly and pushed the gantry framework to its limits. An upgrade was necessary, so we chose the beefiest gearbox we could get our hands on. With our new box, our AM1 can carry up to 60lb loads and move at a faster pace along the Z axis than ever before! Contact us for more information.
Expandable dress designed by Mariale Mora-Sanchez.
Mariale Mora-Sanchez is one of our interns here at Cosine and an industrial design student from the University of Houston. She designed a 3D printed an expandable dress out of flexible material and printed it with our AM1. Here's her presentation about it.
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Service Engineer, Felix and Maria, wearing her dress
Designed by one of our CAD designers!
Red print is with a 1mm nozzle @ 100 micron layer. Print time = 30 minutes
White print is with a 1mm nozzle @ 500 micron layer. Print time = 35 hours.
We call it "America: A Divided Self"
We 3d scanned our head (get it) designer and printed her face in PLA. The effect was totally totally unexpected, but turned out amazing.
What we printed today! Split form patterns for casting a 90lb steel safety valve. We firmly believe that casting is one of the right applications for large format filament printing!
Note the steaming popping in this part. It's due to the ABS picking up moisture during the printing process. We're working on a heated vacuum spool cart to help prevent this problem. It's a tough one!
After one application of Evercoat Featherfill. Never again apply bondo by hand! Take about 10 minutes to spray and 20 minutes to sand. There is a time/resolution tradeoff that is always present with printing. For larger prints, it's often times better to choose a larger layer thickness to save 12+ hours in printing, and perform a half hour of post processing to achieve the final desired surface finish.
This is what we call the "Time is Money" tower. There is a constant desire to have the best possible surface finish with prints, but it comes at the price of time. We're created a sample that shows this concept very plainly. Each one inch section of the tower is done at a different layer thickness.
.1mm layer = 360 RMS = 102 minutes
.2mm layer = 590 RMS = 51 minutes
.3mm layer = 720 RMS = 35 minutes
.4mm layer = 950 RMS = 26 minutes
.5mm layer = 1100 RMS = 21 minutes
What we printed today! Patterns for casting a 8" wafer valve. We firmly believe that casting is one of the right applications for large format filament printing!
Printed this today! This will eventually serve as a core for a composite carbon fiber wing. We've just taken delivery of an autoclave and will be doing experiments with HIPS dissolvable cores for prepreg carbon fiber composites in the near future. Anyone have models needed for wing tunnel testing?
What we printed today! A 33% scale kayak for the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at University of Houston. We'll update with pictures of the assembled and painted model soon.
Because sometimes you have to print something that just isn't good for anything!
What we printed today! A fun little sample for an investment burnout casting using PLA.
What we printed today! Jamie's face!
