Developers: | Choc Edge |
Last Release Date: | 2016/12/12 |
Branches: | Food industry, Tourism, hotel and restaurant business |
Choc Creator V2.0 Plus is the 3D-printer for printing chocolate.
On April 24, 2017 it became known of the beginning of sales of the Choc Creator V2.0 Plus printer in Russia. The device from the British company Choc Edge is focused on business users.
Features of the device
Choc Creator V2.0 Plus prints the kindled chocolate. Diameter of a nozzle is 0.8 mm, thickness of a layer is 0.4 mm. The printer can create objects of 18×18×5 cm in size. The device supports Wi-Fi and USB interfaces. Dimensions of the device of 425×450×420 mm[1].
"Cartridge" for chocolate is executed of stainless steel in the form of the 30 ml confectionery syringe. In the course of work the printer continuously warms up "cartridge" that excludes hardening of chocolate.
Printing 3D - an object can proceed up to 40 minutes, at the large volume and high complexity of the created model. 2D - the drawings created for one pass on a substrate (cookies, gingerbread, etc.), the printer is capable to print during from two to eight minutes, according to the producer.
2.5D-models - consist of several layers of chocolate and do not require a substrate, can be created in three-five minutes.
The control of the device is implemented by means of the built-in color touch display with a diagonal of 2 inches. The library from one hundred figures is built in the printer, to send to printing which it is possible a one click of the virtual button.
Especially for Choc Creator 2.0 Plus applications are created:
- Mix&Match - base of upgradeable templates which can be printed in finished form or adding to them the texts and other elements
- ChocoText is the transformer of any text in the STL format for further printing (work only with Latin is supported)
- Choc Draw is mobile application for Android, allows to create own objects.
Choc Creator 2.0 Plus supports the most widespread formats of 3D models, can obtain data from programs for work with 3D - graphics: Autodesk, TinkerCAD, Google SketchUp, etc. In the device function of poyamy printing is supported - an opportunity to receive the description of 3D models from the flash drives connected to the port of the device is implemented.
Supply
The vendor does not deliver supplies for printing - the printer works at the Belgian chocolate chips containing 54.5% of cocoa according to the statement of the company.