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Because, if such parts were really needed, people would've gone to any length to make them for things like missiles. High performance heat exchangers for appli
by baybal2 5y ago
Because, if such parts were really needed, people would've gone to any length to make them for things like missiles.
High performance heat exchangers for applications where every gram counts for example were hand made like a jewelry work at a huge expense.
I spent 10 years working in electronics, and not only manufacturing.
- pfdietz 5y agoThere have been rocket engines built by stacking carefully made thin metal slices (with holes cut for coolant channels) and then using diffusion bonding to join them into a single monolith. I could see 3D printing being used for this instead, and perhaps more cheaply.
- baybal2 5y agoI see even diffusion bonding still being cheaper than 3d.
- yazaddaruvala 5y agoI see, you just don’t believe that additive manufacturing is a truly new paradigm and that there are parts that can be constructed now that were previously just non-constructible.