First, the materials available today in Additive manufacturing include not only plastics and resins but a number of metals from stainless to titanium. We went from flip phones to powerful handheld computers in a short 5-6 yrs. You really think that we wont have a huge number of material choices in a very short time? Second and a much bigger deal is the fact that a 3D printer can print internal structures like honeycomb or the organic fractal structures inside our weight bearing bones. This means you can design anything to be light, strong and have any number of flex characteristics impossible with foam and glass. Sorry injection molding dudes. While we will still have some things injection molded....at least for a while, you may want to join the blacksmiths union. That we you can all hang around a commiserate on how technology screwed you over. - This is probably the best comment on 3d printing I have seen yet. Move over technophobes
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:58:35 +0000
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