A couple of 'a few hours' sounds like a very long time, and £9.50 for cup?? would it not be a lot quicker and less expensive to pop to the shop and buy one off the shelf??
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A couple of 'a few hours' sounds like a very long time, and £9.50 for cup?? would it not be a lot quicker and less expensive to pop to the shop and buy one off the shelf??
You are right, it would be easier at the present time to just nip to s shop but that's not what this post is about. Don't forget I designed the cup on the computer which takes time. If you were to take an already modeled item such as a phone case and just click print it can be finished within 2 hours. Plus it would also be a lot more cost effective if this was my own printer that I owned and bought the plastic medium for, but seen as I only had access to it on a professional level it costs a little more to use.
This was just an insight I had into what the technology can do and as it becomes more advanced and readily available you can guarantee that the price of the plastic medium will come down and the printing speed will increase meaning that most things will be available for people to either home print or as mentioned above be printed whilst you do your shopping etc.
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I think you are missing the point eel. the technology is in its infancy. remember when microwaves forst came out, they cost the earth. Now you can buy them for chips. Costs will get cheaper to the point where it will be economical. Early adopter always have to accept higher costs but it will get there. I think it will be huge.
It certainly will be huge. And its going to force a rethink on patent laws. Expect a formats battle for the file format. Open source V drm. Youll buy a print from a web shop to download to your home printer and pay per print. You may even have some sort of grinder to recycle old parts into consumables.
I like that idea Mike. Eat your breakfast and throw the bowl in the plastic grinder.
Mot you print something and use it until it fails, then grind it down and reuse the plastic to make a brand new one!
My next project will be a fully 3D printed liner lock knife that my daughter can use safely to learn as she grows. Ill post that up when I get chance an have it sorted.
Whittler Kev
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I reckon your right. This is going to be huge....downside is all the people making stuff at the moment that will all be redundant 
Not missing the point at all, just being practical, why spend nearly all day 'printing' a cup, when you can pop out and buy one, and make a pot of tea and drink it, and still have 'a few hours' to spare!!
Same could be said about any technology in its infancy. They all start out either impracticle or inefficient. But it's the early adopters that pave the way for mass consumption.
Automobiles
Computers
Phones
Dishwashers
Vacuum cleaners
I remember that from Jurassic Park when they replicated a raptor's nasal chamber! I love when film technology comes into use in real life.
Think of all the "geeks" who sat on their Commodores and the like, and took countless hours to do all sorts of "pointless" stuff; those people drove the technology to the point where we have things like this forum.
Early adopters drive things on, and it happens in very short order; without them none of it would happen...................atb mac
Early adopters drive things on, and it happens in very short order; without them none of it would happen...................atb mac
I think it will be the other way round - produce your own (or download some open source) stl, take into shop, get printed. There are some places already offering this service.
The printer I have access to retails currently at £1500. Quite expensive but given that it is a desktop printer and not an industrial scale is promising for the future.
Not strictly a tool, but 3d printing could be useful for producing lightweight custom sheath-liners for the ubiquitous bushcraft knives. Some off-the-peg knives seem to be well-provisioned in this regard but the thermoform plastic that is available for making custom half-liners is not perfectly adequate to my mind.
All in all a cool project. I like the latticework supporting the handle and between layers of mug. Do you think that this has any significant thermal value? A 3d-printed thermos mug would be brilliant!
The technology comes of age when it can give people things that cannot be made any other way.
Consider a knife where only the edge of the blade is made of steel; the main body of the blade is made of hollow titanium; weirdly light, but still as strong. The handle is also hollow to exactly balance with the blade and is custom made to precisely fit your hand, and no one else's in a colour or pattern of your choice.
Just dreaming...
Z
Consider a knife where only the edge of the blade is made of steel; the main body of the blade is made of hollow titanium; weirdly light, but still as strong. The handle is also hollow to exactly balance with the blade and is custom made to precisely fit your hand, and no one else's in a colour or pattern of your choice.
Just dreaming...
Z
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