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It's great to have control over this but I suspect most users never knew this was happening, had no idea dd could bypass that behavior, nor knew which argument
by cosmotic 4y ago
It's great to have control over this but I suspect most users never knew this was happening, had no idea dd could bypass that behavior, nor knew which argument to pass to dd to accomplish this. It's like saying 'what makes 3d printers so great is you can make anything!' but you'd be way better off with an industrially forged object than the 3d printed object.
- birdyrooster 4y agoright and good luck doing injection or vacuum molding for a few copies of a niche design Edit: correcting for nitpicker
- andi999 4y agoFor a few copies of niche design you would do vacuum molding.
- girvo 4y agoYou can do vacuum forming at home pretty easily. We used to do it back in the day for one-off handheld versions of home game consoles.
- dTal 4y agoThat's cool, I didn't know you could do that. How do you make the mold? If (as I suspect) the answer is handcrafting, 3d printing still offers a considerable advantage in labor.
- girvo 4y agoOh gosh yes. Though for certain finishes, vacuum forming still has some upsides. Whats neat is you can use 3D printing to make the mould for vacuum forming over. This gives you the best of both worlds, in terms of the shapes/finishes that forming can achieve, but with the workflow benefits of 3D printing. Similarly, the new hotness is compression/cold forging using 3D printed moulds and carbon fibre (and other materials). Very very cool.
- cosmotic 4y agoThe main point wasn't the problems with 3d printers but actually looking at dd from a human centered design perspective.