Re:3D Printing is for more than making brightly colored plas...
by marshray on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:21AM
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Realistically it takes my 3D printer about 90 seconds to warm up and while it's printing I can be doing other things.
I, too, love manual subtractive fabrication. But while the tools are not necessarily that expensive, they do take up far more space on the shop bench. While I'm temporarily an apartment dweller, I just don't have the space to set up my lathe or a mill.
The technologies are perfectly complementary. For example, often I'll 3D print something with undersized holes and then drill and tap them to size.
I, too, love manual subtractive fabrication. But while the tools are not necessarily that expensive, they do take up far more space on the shop bench. While I'm temporarily an apartment dweller, I just don't have the space to set up my lathe or a mill.
The technologies are perfectly complementary. For example, often I'll 3D print something with undersized holes and then drill and tap them to size.