Need a way to sand detail areas on your 3D prints? There’s a tool for that.
Since the beginning, 3D prints have always suffered from layer lines. It’s simply part of the process of 3D printing, where objects are created one layer at a time.
Most of the time, those lines don’t matter. But sometimes they do. You may want to have perfectly smooth surfaces.
The normal approach to achieve those smooth surfaces is to repeatedly sand and paint the surface until it is smooth. That’s easier said than done, however. Sanding in tight corners is basically impossible, so many people avoid sanding entirely on printed objects with complex geometries.
The new NeoSander by HOZO might change all that. It’s a handheld, battery-powered automatic sander that is specifically designed for detail work.
It has a high-speed (13,000 rpm) motor and reciprocating motion that should very quickly smooth out surfaces. The small toolhead is able to reach into most crevices, making it far easier to sand a complex object.
The design of the system should enable makers to achieve uniform smoothness on almost all surfaces of a 3D print. At the same time, the device is designed to reduce the number of mistakes: gouges, slips, etc., so that the result should be of pretty high quality.
If sanding wasn’t enough, the NeoSander comes with a number of additional toolheads, including:
- Eight sanding heads
- Curved saw and jigsaw blades
All of these are easily changed with the quick swap head system.
The NeoSander was previously launched in a Kickstarter campaign, but now it is generally available to the public. It’s priced at US$70, which is not a bad price for an item that you might use on many 3D prints.
Via HOZO
