Why is 3D printing technology so shit? This could have been a real game changer, it could have been a massive transfer of wealth, but it has failed and it sucks. It takes forever to print small worthless shit and you can't even print anything too big either. 3D printing sucks.
3D Printing - what went wrong?
Zachary Adams
Carter Thompson
>3D printing
Matthew Martinez
what a good thread
Easton Flores
It's still a pretty new technology and you're looking at desktop shit instead of industrial grade shit.
Nathaniel Williams
Home systems a shit, yes, but it still has great potential for rapid prototyping, especially for sls metal systems. I got into it a while back and am glad I did mostly because it gave me an excuse to learn CAD
Samuel Butler
Im thinking of getting one to print some prototypes of an business idea with a 3d model im making. Besides the tech is still really new.
Christian Collins
Got one recently. So far I've printed a wall-mounted sunglasses holder, toothbrush holder, vinyl holder, and a new cover for my hatchet.
Christopher Lee
Learn autocad or solidworks
Dylan Scott
How much does each print cost on avg user?
Easton Thompson
Because they realized you could print firearm parts so now it has to be shitty to keep people from doing that.
Aiden Butler
Material costs are pennies for small parts: $30/kg and a kg will make you many, many little widgets. The amortized cost of the machine and of your time are about it
Jacob Ramirez
Nice, what about electricity costs?
Levi Watson
That looks like one of those violent sprite hentai machines
Angel Allen
Right? Literally every corporation has a vested interest in stopping the home 3D printer. And I'm sure they've already bought up any and every application they think could hurt their businesses. Who knows how many incredible technologies have been bought and shelved by these evil corporations
Julian Bailey
Consumer-grade 3d printers are actually really really fucking detailed and accurate now, they're just slow af. But idk what more you could ask for from actual good ones. You can even 3d print metal objects now, pic related is something done with direct metal laser sintering.
Idk what you guys expect, its still a new technology and probably going to be a while before we're able to 3d print entire fully functional units with moving parts or electrical components rather than in separate parts. But in terms of repair/maintenance, QA and printing time, I think individually printed components that are assembled after (this could be automated) is the way to go for most products in most circumstances. But there's still a whole fuckton you can do with a 3d printer in terms of product design (or even hobbyist shit like mini figurines).
Carter James
It still innovative on the industrial side. They print rocket parts with it. Some guy said it took a year or two in the old day to create a complex shape parts, now it takes only 7 days.
Grayson Fisher
Surprised to see a 3d printed bread, have an upboat.
Decentralized manufacturing is the biggest red pill there is, I believe electronics casings will be a huge part of that. Also keep in mind you can do parallel manufacturing with a 3d printer that can print printers and then all the printers print the objects you need etc etc.
Austin Walker
A typical system has a 12V/15-20A power supply of which you’re using maybe 5A on average over the course of the print. That works out to
Cooper Hernandez
oh for sure, but as you said, they've come leaps and bounds in the last couple years. There's even nanoscale printing where you can print tiny shit like pic related in extreme detail. I was mostly just saying that I dont understand how someone would not be impressed with 3d printing
Carson Long
They're slow as shit and very inefficient. They need more nozzles or something. I was watching a video of this guy making a crate and it took like 60 hours. That's crazy
Ryan Reyes
That’s the dream of the reprap thing but the reality is you’ll never be able to print something like a stepper motor
Elijah Martinez
It's actually old technology that was not available to the mainstream public due to costs. Businesses use it. Its still limited in what it can do and I don't see that changing anytime soon. A metal 3d printer is still 100k + and it can't do anything larger that you're regular pla chink shit 200 printer can
John Hernandez
Cool. I might consider getting one then. Could be useful to have
Aiden Gutierrez
You have to design against the limitations and accept the fact that some parts are just better off coming from some Chinese assembly line. Unless you ar hardcore enough to melt your own steel
Chase Long
Go to DIY, 3dpg. You can buy a decent starter printer for like 300 with everything you need
Juan Gray
Ok thanks I'll check it out. Is it possible to have the part that you want printed scanned by the machine or something? Like, if I already had a crate for example, could the printer somehow scan the crate and upload that design without me having to create it from scratch?
Jaxson Murphy
because really nobody wants to spend a few hundred dollars just to be able to print plastic bullshit. The only concievable future I see is one where the metal printing tech drops a magnitude in price and you can spend like $3k-$10k to get a washing-machine sized "omniprinter" using FDM that can print functioning circuitboards with metal/plastic. SLS and Resin are shit and never going to get adopted unless they make the materials as inert/safe as filament, the price difference literally doesn't matter. the whole move to make this shit avaliable at the sub $300 price range is a tragic misstep. If a machine costs thousands of dollars but can print metal, can switch materials/colors automatically, is entirely self-contained and self-maintaining (don't have to prep the print bed, don't have to scrape shit off the print bread, can upload files wirelessly like a 2d printer, don't have to level it, don't have to manually remove shit from the print bed when doing multiple prints, don't have to remove support material, basically only have to feed in materials and files), and can print complex shit like circuitry or mechanisms, then you've essentially got an entirely different machine that has comparably limitless applications and therefore warrants the much higher price. but STEMfags are retards that don't understand economics and think that "lower price = more people adopt" and keep trying to design the ultimate poorfag desktop tchochke factory for $100 so normalfags can print... phone cases and shit? nigger you can get printers rn with PERFECT build quality and minimal setup for ~$400, if you're an actual adult (not a neet/college student scraping by) $400 is fucking nothing, people drop almost three times that on an iphone every other year, the price is not a barrier to entry.
Adam Clark
It's not like more expensive machines print any faster though? Not sure what you're trying to say. They have different qualities of 3D printers and they vary greatly in price, yet all of them are pretty much inefficient.
Charles Robinson
They can be a very powerful tool but I’d definitely recommend getting into cad. Being able to design your own parts is where the real power is
Yeah of course. We’re a long way from Von Neumann replicators
>no fun allowed
Robert Foster
The plastics suck. 3D printing needs better plastics.
Carson Hill
Do you have to design everything from scratch? Let's say I want to replicate a bottle that I already have, can I somehow scan that into the software so I don't have to design it myself?
Samuel Lee
>If a machine costs thousands of dollars but can print metal, can switch materials/colors automatically, is entirely self-contained and self-maintaining (don't have to prep the print bed, don't have to scrape shit off the print bread, can upload files wirelessly like a 2d printer, don't have to level it, don't have to manually remove shit from the print bed when doing multiple prints, don't have to remove support material, basically only have to feed in materials and files)
he literally said what he was trying to say in the post.
Dylan Morgan
If you plan on printing random gizmos it is probably a waste of money. I am prototyping a product I may bring to maket soon, so it is nice to have. Though you will have to wait half a day for parts sometimes, that’s the part that needs improving, shit is too slow.
Oliver Murphy
CNC Machining master race reporting in
Lincoln Lopez
There are shitty 3D scanners that you can buy or hack together but you’re usually better off redoing it yourself parametrically. Look at it like an opportunity to learn a weird skill that’ll make normies think you’re even more odd than they did before. That’s been my experience anyway