There was a thing called shape, memory material which, after being made even if you deform it after warming up, it will come back to its original state to make original state. You need to heat it up to a certain temperature of 3-D printing would be perfect so you can print it at a very high temperature then if it deforms, you just heat it up and will reform together. Here is a video of white shape memory material can do https://m.youtube.com/shorts/RAEMm63guVY.
So what I’m proposing is bamboo labs will make a material with these properties. I don’t care what type of material is. I don’t even care the price. I just really want this. Tell me what you think. And if you have connections with bamboo labs, please make sure they find out about this. Maybe they can save me as a person that helped think of the idea. [poll type=multiple results=always min=1 max=2 public=true chartType=bar]
Shape memory is a very unique property of one type of metal.
There simply is no thermoplastic polymer with the same property. So it will be impossible for BambuLab to create a filament with shape memory properties for their 3d printers.
Actually, there are shape memory polymers. But I have no idea if they’d be suitable for FDM or if they’d be able to be tuned solely by printing (shape memory metals like NiTinol require very specific conditions) and whether or not they can be activated in useful temp ranges.
Certainly worth an interesting lit review.
Would be great to reduce waste.
If you don’t need your printed part anymore, you simply turn it back into a spool of filament
But being serious, the printability if probably the biggest problem.
What I also understand is that the polymer can only restore to its original shape by activating it, but won’t return to the deformed shape when for instance being cooled, like the metal springs in the movie.
