The Carbon3D printer pulls complex shapes out of a dish of plastic

Re:The Carbon3D printer pulls complex shapes out of a dish o... by monopolemagnet on Saturday October 03, 2015 @01:50AM (#10322770)

The two current biggest issues with thermoplastic 3D printers are:

- electricity usage: heating a baseplate, feed head and mechanical effort of moving a massive apparatus bazillion^3 times.

- speed (or lack thereof) of moving one or two heads those bz^3 times to get anything made

We're still in the "horse-and-buggy"-days of distributed manufacturing, so one approach or another will eventually find something scalable, Edison-style. More inventions and approaches are definitely a good-thing.

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Re:The Carbon3D printer pulls complex shapes out of a dish o... by yincrash on Saturday October 03, 2015 @02:42AM (#10322874)

This isn't a thermoplastic printer?

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Re:The Carbon3D printer pulls complex shapes out of a dish o... by monopolemagnet on Saturday October 03, 2015 @02:47AM (#10322892)

Read the article: looks like a light-curing printer, which prints 2 dimensions at a time instead of 1.

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Re:The Carbon3D printer pulls complex shapes out of a dish o... by yincrash on Saturday October 03, 2015 @02:18PM (#10324830)

I did read the article. I'm just confused about what the GGP comment about thermoplastic printers was about for an article that isn't about thermoplastic printers.

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