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Posted by sboverie
22nd Sep 2011
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Posted by dduggerbiocepts
3rd May 2012
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The exciting part of 3D printed car skins...
Is the ability to customize your skin. Forget the 4-year design cycle; you start with a generic framework, then have someone design a skin to match your desires. Tired of your old skin? Get a new one that is created from recycling your old one back into raw materials that is fed into the 3D printer!
Posted by gork platter
22nd Sep 2011
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Yes... when are cars going to be modularized?
Hello - ? Engine work would take a fraction of the time - and be a lot less costly. Just like I can pull a hard drive and test it - why can't I pull an engine/transmission and test it just as easily?
Posted by GuntherGump
22nd Sep 2011
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Repair vs manufacture
Not sure if 3D printing of parts will save that much on the manufacturing side, but there's definitely huge potential on the repair side. Local (or at least regional) printers could replace shipping of parts across long distances, making repairs faster & saving on the cost of maintaing inventories of a huge variety of parts.
Posted by hoodedswan
22nd Sep 2011
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Re: Repair vs manufacture
Not only that, but imagine the economy when the only two tools the mechanic needs are a printer and an eraser.
Posted by BaapidMakwa
22nd Sep 2011
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3D printed car skins
"eliminates the need to have them shipped in from various factories" AND just what teleporter brings the materials that are used in the 3D printing process? So instead of rolled steel stamped on site and weled on location, you'll ship hundreds of thousads of tons of petroelum based meltable plastic to the 3D printer.
Anyone crash test this thing? Burn the flameless ethanol that you can't see its on fire? What happens IF it catches fire from an electrical short? Most plastic burns like crazy.
I love the idea of 3D printers. But they are not the cure-all.
Anyone crash test this thing? Burn the flameless ethanol that you can't see its on fire? What happens IF it catches fire from an electrical short? Most plastic burns like crazy.
I love the idea of 3D printers. But they are not the cure-all.
Posted by scooper@...
22nd Sep 2011
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3D Cars Manufacturing Conundrum
Reducing labor costs actually means fewer people working. Success of this kind produces the quandary once voiced by Walter Reuther, the famous union organizer. When the technology succeeds (and it will) who will be able to buy one? (as the US poverty rate continues past 25%)
In a funnier, but still true observation, Steven Colbert said the cost of the printer is the ink, not the device. Unless the parts are made by solar absorbing bacteria, the plastic will just be more expensive petroleum, negating the mileage gain and continuing the addiction to Mid-East politics/wars/defense.
Every miracle brings new problems.
In a funnier, but still true observation, Steven Colbert said the cost of the printer is the ink, not the device. Unless the parts are made by solar absorbing bacteria, the plastic will just be more expensive petroleum, negating the mileage gain and continuing the addiction to Mid-East politics/wars/defense.
Every miracle brings new problems.
Posted by fire1
22nd Sep 2011
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3D printing for prototypes only
3D printing is slow and expensive. You need to have a 3D printing machine and amortize the cost of that machine over the number of parts printed. The result is a very expensive part, particularly if the parts are as large as a car.
Posted by JohnCBriggs
22nd Sep 2011
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re: 3D printing for prototypes only
Perhaps they could subsidize the cost by printing money when the machine is not otherwise engaged?
Posted by BaapidMakwa
22nd Sep 2011
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I have seen 3D printers and they are the equivalent of a dot matrix b&w printer. The printer is slow in that it is making the part layer by layer and the "ink" has to solidify before the next layer can be added. As such, it is better for prototyping but not for mass production. 3D printing can be good for customizing a design and embedding features that can't be done through current manufacturing processes.
3D printers will take off once the "ink" can consist of multiple materials at the same time, conductive materials combined with transparent materials and insulator material can make more than just a body part.
3D printers will take off once the "ink" can consist of multiple materials at the same time, conductive materials combined with transparent materials and insulator material can make more than just a body part.
Posted by sboverie
22nd Sep 2011
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In all dishonesty -
The title of the article and it's implication are lies - whether you later admit it or not. There nothing here but a few 3-d printed body panels. 3-D printing is so over-hyped it's absolutely amazing. It has very definite physical materials and especially economic limits all of which keep it from advancing as promoters would imply. Economically, the process has already peaked in that it is primarily limited by material cost restrictions that are likely to never be overcome technologically.
Posted by dduggerbiocepts
3rd May 2012