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You 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.
by girvo 4y ago
You 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.