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Depends on the printer. Not all use plastic. Soem use a lasr to cut the modell from a solid block. You can 3D print a complete chess set out of steel this way :
by noptic 14y ago
Depends on the printer. Not all use plastic.
Soem use a lasr to cut the modell from a solid block.
You can 3D print a complete chess set out of steel this way :).
This is far to expensive for home use, but I gues you could use it to create fake car parts, and sell them for half the price.
- lutorm 14y agoThere are also machines that assemble metal parts from powder by distributing powder and then using a laser to melt it, layer by layer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering (If you used laser cutting, it seems it would be hard to make non-convex parts, since you can't stop the laser at a certain depth.)