Just so we're clear, 3D printing is a meme, right?
Just so we're clear, 3D printing is a meme, right?
Gabriel Jones
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Evan Bailey
It's real and non-trivial user. What's your issue with it?
Josiah Cooper
No, 3D printing is the future, because in the future everything will be made of flimsy plastic.
Joshua Ramirez
No
No one has been able to afford it well and has many potential to get more benefits from it or cause lots of damage as well
Gavin Edwards
It's the only technology that makes self-replicating robots possible so it's an inevitability, not a meme
Aiden Sanders
We use them frequently at my engineering company and we do serious industrial automation projects not hipster kickstarter shit.
We use injection molding for the final mass produced products, but its a lot of time ad money to get the factory pumping those out. It's extremely useful to 3D print a few of them first and so you can see how they feel in your hand, bring them to board meetings, make sure your CAD guy wasn't high, etc. Before 3D printers you'd have to pay someone to make an approximate model using clay, cardboard, etc.
Jonathan Murphy
Awesome, you just took some people jobs apart, what a bright future
Noah Jenkins
This. Rapid prototyping is not a meme. The ability to rapidly produce shitty plastic models *that are accurate to a CAD drawing, cheaply* is genuinely useful.
James Ortiz
Yea, it's just how humanity perished after the Ford assembly line... The only real issue is transportation which you should bitch to Elon musk.
Nathan Cook
>What do you mean we should use light bulbs? Think of all the candle makers you'll put out of work!