3D Printing: Affordable 3D printing of reflector (2 Solutions!!)
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 30/06/2019

3D Printing: Affordable 3D printing of reflector


The Question: Are there any 3D printing services or something similar to 3D print or
injection mold light reflectors?
I'm trying to find something that is similar to PCB printing that allows you to
upload a 3D design of a reflector and they will produce this reflector and coat
it with mirror surface.

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== This solution helped 4 people ==
I would not recommend extrusion printers for this, because they are unlikely to
produce a smooth enough surface. To get a clean surface, the irregularities
have to be a fraction of visible wavelengths, which is to say on the order of
0.01 micron.
Without knowing what sort of reflector you're thinking of (flat? spherical?
parabolic?), it's hard to recommend a specific optimal, cheap approach. All in
all, you're probably best off looking in standard catalogs such as Edmund
Optics.

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