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> If it ended up being a utilitarian 'boring' construction then there would be no point in 3D printing it in the first place. There's a great deal of point to
by skookumchuck 9y ago
> If it ended up being a utilitarian 'boring' construction then there would be no point in 3D printing it in the first place.
There's a great deal of point to it - saving money in material and fabrication costs.
- adkaplan 9y agoSomething like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYRfMzmWFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYRfMzmWFU could be a happy medium. Shapes that must be 3d printed but forms that are less fluff and more function.
- ofrzeta 9y agoHaving a welding robot run for 6 months straight will hardly reduce fabrication costs. Given the price of MIG welding wire it's also dubious if you could reduce material costs.
- jacquesm 9y agoThis is pioneering work, saving money in material and fabrication costs is something that will happen in the longer term when the tech is more mature. This is a technology demonstration, not an example of super high efficiency. It also took much longer to make than it would have taken to make it in a more traditional way. That said it still came in rather competitive compared to the alternatives, which says quite a bit about how manufacturers of such structures normally charge.