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Re:3D Printing: The Game Changer by gcb on Saturday June 09, 2012 @05:34PM (#4089374)
You will hear several diy ones.

I think the worst cost issue is the money for the crappy plastic.

Also everyone is using pirated copies of 3d software instead of freecad

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Re:3D Printing: The Game Changer by nrp on Saturday June 09, 2012 @05:51PM (#4089429)
If you look around Thingiverse, you'll find that most of the popular and non-decorative stuff is designed in OpenSCAD.

To the original question, MakerGear makes some high quality kits.

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Re:3D Printing: The Game Changer by simcop2387 on Saturday June 09, 2012 @06:28PM (#4089519)
Actually most of what I've seen is from sketchup (free), OpenSCAD (Free), or Autodesk 123D (free). There's some solidworks stuff but I have no idea if it's pirated or not, nobody does from the perspective of the person getting the files to print.
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