On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote: > Only if the machine can print steel, ceramic along with hundreds of > other materials. This machine does none of this - it makes parts out of > PVC that maybe can be used as a pattern for the real thing or maybe not. > Tom, it's only a matter of time. And at the minimum you are going to see, instead of a parts shelf, a computer and a CNC machine 'printing' parts on demand. Already being done on a big scale in the publishing industry. Once the principal is proven to work it's just a matter of working out the details. The progression of science into a technology into engineering to a usable product. |
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