It's a useful tool for engineers, but not everybody is an engineer. It was hyped like it was a replicator from star trek. The novelty of printing little plast

It's a useful tool for engineers, but not everybody is an engineer. It was hyped like it was a replicator from star trek. The novelty of printing little plastic figurines wears off quickly. At some point you realize that you can buy a bag of a much higher quality injection molded version of the same thing at the dollar store. They are useful for making things that don't yet exist, but that means it must be something you come up with and model yourself. And this is where they are no longer the tool of users, only engineers.