A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing

Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by moflome on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:57PM (#13181700)

Can you comment on why the initial capabilities focus on CNC and aluminum? What would concern you with offering, say, CNC for wood, CNC for aluminum with compound faces, or injection molded parts?

Perhaps related, any plans for Blender plugin?

Thanks!

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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by JeremyHerrman on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @09:31PM (#13181871)

Thanks for the questions!

It's mostly driven by what our customers have asked for. Subtractive processes like CNC have a high barrier to entry (compared to additive), so we started there to make it easier for everyone to get quality parts easily and quickly. Aluminum is a great material that you see a lot in both prototype and final products across industries.

The CAD integrations, materials, and part complexity we support are constantly improving - much more to come in 2017!

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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by taneq on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:10PM (#13182072)

The additive manufacturing space is already owned by Shapeways etc.

Aluminium is already the material of choice for a lot of prototyping and general purpose widget making, and for good reason. It's relatively cheap, easy to machine, lightweight, strong enough, and corrosion resistant.

Automating the design-to-CNC-instructions process is a pretty logical next step.

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