>It's just that it's very easy for deviations from what the sensors see to occur. right, but this is a problem in any modern precision machining, and it has be

>It's just that it's very easy for deviations from what the sensors see to occur. right, but this is a problem in any modern precision machining, and it has been (mostly) conquered to a degree that we can produce very precise things in an almost entirely automated fashion. >If material is missing somewhere, you could have the machine go back and add it laser sintering is easier to audit than a normal fdm style print in a lot of ways if you care to take the time to do it. The process can be paused fairly easy with the right machine and right environment, the product can be weighed mid-process, it can have all sorts of vision and laser metrology done to the product midway through production; whatever -- and the mid print failure rate is astronomically lower than extrusion based methods. it doesn't seem that unbelievable to me.