Posted on 07/27/2017 2:48:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
3D printed houses will ultimately put an enormous number of skilled people out of work. Where are we going to have jobs in the future?
Sounds like a place I guarded about 10 years ago called “Godtube” which was a religious music video company in a Dallas suburb. Free this, free that, game consoles in little break closets, etc.
bfl
If it proves reliable, less expensive and cost effective it will...............
Again, the fact that the dots are essentially glued together is the weakness. Understanding that engineered parts made from metals has a large amount of parameters that would fall outside the FDM possibilities. One of the most glaring is strength and a subset of that is the molecular grain of a metal in the forging process. The only place I would even consider any actual real use would be in castings, but then again, it is the metallurgical composition and not just the fact that it is metal.
The biggest impediment to production is the time it takes for just making one piece. It is great for prototypes but not necessarily for any kind of performance or destructive testing. These are the same limitations that even polymer 3D printing is still facing, after all these years.
Could graphene be added to the metal?
https://nggenius.com/
That is the sole reason I am watching this industry so closely.
Agreed. Sounds interesting. Will follow. Bookmarked.
Wow - impressive. That dovetails nicely with our visit to the the Johnson Space Center a few weeks ago.
I’m still amazed at what was built & accomplished in the early days using slide rules and the most rudimentary computer systems.
Thanks for the link.
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