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It is very well-known in the 3D printing community that the design of a lot of items that you see in your daily life are actually driven by the limitations of t
by aleph_minus_one 10mo ago
It is very well-known in the 3D printing community that the design of a lot of items that you see in your daily life are actually driven by the limitations of the production process that was used to produce them.
All in all, 3D printing allows a lot more flexibility in designs, but if you attempt to 3D-print many items of your daily life exactly as they are, the result will often be much worse than with the production process that the object was designed for, or sometimes it is possible to come near to the original object, but producing it using 3D printing takes a lot more effort.
It is rather a consensus in the 3D printing community that people should rather make use of the opportunity to use the insanely increased flexibility that 3D printing allows to reimagine how objects in daily life look like - and thus create better versions of such objects that are (by construction) also good 3D-printable.
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Addendum: Concerning "the transparent insert thing": as far as I am aware with resin printing, you can 3D-print transparent things very precisely, and even with FDM printing, a lot of progress has been made with respect to printing objects that are quite transparent:
> https://blog.prusa3d.com/3d-printed-lens-and-other-transparent-objects_31231/ https://blog.prusa3d.com/3d-printed-lens-and-other-transpare...
- ungreased0675 10mo agoPlease don’t speak on behalf of the entire 3D printing community. Just say what you think.