This is probably the future of manufacturing. With a big enough printer, couldn’t one “print” sections of a house, boat, car or furniture?
With a big enough printer one could print a skyscraper or ship.
Yep, you just have to buy the pattern from the copyright holder, or check the Linux pages for an open source version.
Open source aircraft? or pay for the pattern? choices... choices...
“print sections of a house, boat, car or furniture?”
as long as it’s made of plastic - or something that can be “printed”.