Clear filament- Closest to glass as possible

[Joe Williams @joewilliams My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition North Wales, UK]

I am prototyping glassware and need a filament as transparent as glass as possible.

Also if anyone has any recommendation on finishing in order to make it look as close to glass as possible it will be greatly appreciated

 

Thank you in advance

AutoCAD 2016
MODO 901

Windows X
PC name: 3DBEAST

[pelgrim @pelgrim My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Early Bird Belgium, Flanders]

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[Joe Williams @joewilliams My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition North Wales, UK]

@pelgrim

Thanks very much, exactly what I was looking for!

AutoCAD 2016
MODO 901

Windows X
PC name: 3DBEAST

[BHudson @bhudson I have several Robox units Kickstarter and Commercial Arizona, USA]

@joewilliams @pelgrim That thread is really, really old. I find that while T-Glass is a great filament, you can get just about the same results with clear XT and nGen. There is also a clear epoxy called XTC-3D that will fill in the surface roughness and you will get a very close to glass appearance. You can also lightly sand the surfaces with fine sandpaper to smooth it out, then apply the XTC epoxy and get even better finishes once you learn how to use it.

Note that the settings and profiles in that thread are so old that they are no longer appropriate to use.

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[Joe Williams @joewilliams My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition North Wales, UK]

@bhudson

Have you had any experience with either RBX-ABS-TP001 ABS in Crystal Clear or RBX-PLA-NT001 Natural Clear?

I’m guessing that XTC epoxy has the effect that’s on the top of the object in the picture attached?

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AutoCAD 2016
MODO 901

Windows X
PC name: 3DBEAST

[BHudson @bhudson I have several Robox units Kickstarter and Commercial Arizona, USA]

@joewilliams I have not used those filaments. They were not available when I found T-Glase and XT clear and after finding those two PET filaments there was no need to look into others.

Yes, that picture is T-Glase with XTC.

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[Joe Williams @joewilliams My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition North Wales, UK]

@bhudson thanks for the replies, appreciate it you are always very helpful.

Going to look in to the comparison between the 2 Robox ones and T-Glase and XT and will post findings for people to view.

AutoCAD 2016
MODO 901

Windows X
PC name: 3DBEAST

[Dr. Woo @dr-woo I have several Robox units Kickstarter and Commercial Frankfurt/Main, Germany]

”Yes, that picture is T-Glase with XTC.“

Wow! Pretty impressive. Any idea whether that works just as well with e.g. taulman Tritan or other taulman Polyester filaments?

[BHudson @bhudson I have several Robox units Kickstarter and Commercial Arizona, USA]

@dr-woo It should work on any polyester that is clear.

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[hagster @hagster My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version UK]

This looks interesting.
https://www.3dhubs.com/talk/thread/sbs-filament-available-filamentarno-prints-can-be-made-smooth-and-transparent-d-limonene

It can be smoothed with limonene apoarently.

[Andy S @andylion My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

Those results look very, very pretty.

Sounds like it would be difficult to get and potentially a fair bit of work to use though?

[paulsroom @paulsroom My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version Chichester, UK]

I’m looking to getting a reel of ColoFabb nGen clear, but I don’t really understand how it becomes fully transparent (sorry you’ll have to forgive my ignorance). I can see that coating the finished model with XTC makes it fully clear, but surely there’s a fill setting beyond which it’s simply cloudy? Is this a case a zero fill is applied?

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