-Kanrabat- wrote:Those things are expensive.
They also require quite a setup plus you need the software and the SKILLS to use a 3D printer.
Those are not for everyone. Even customizers. It's like asking an artist who specialise in oil painting to learn and use photoshop.
Burn wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Those things are expensive.
No, they're not.They also require quite a setup plus you need the software and the SKILLS to use a 3D printer.
No, you don't. Work colleague bought one earlier this year, he has no experience in design, had never used a 3D printer before, just did a bit of research and he's constantly printing out stuff, including parts for his car.Those are not for everyone. Even customizers. It's like asking an artist who specialise in oil painting to learn and use photoshop.
Do some research. You'd be very surprised how far 3D printers have come and how easy they are to use. You don't even need to do the design yourself, there's a multitude of websites out there for people to share their designs which you can then download and print yourself.
As for your analogy ... it just doesn't line up in this particular instance.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Well, if those things have leaped so much since the first times they came around, that's nice. However, we are not talking about a 50$ thing here. I see cheap ones at 250$can (for a cheap-ass one) to over 2000$ for the more interesting ones. That's still very expensive. Especially for the casual who don't do much custom work.
Be snarky all you want,
but those are still not for the common guy.
Hell, I just barely got a hairbrush set.
A cheap set at still 100$+. A 3D printer is tempting, but that's 2000$+ that I'm not willing to pay for this "inexpensive" device.
It would, it really would. Also helpful in completing partial duplicates where nobody's done STLs of the parts yet (*cough*ROTF Leader Optimus Prime*cough*)-Kanrabat- wrote:One thing that would be REALLY useful. Something akin to printer/scanner combo. There is a pert on one of my bot that have a broken off balljoint. Such a part is impossible to repair. But if I could have access to a 3D printer that included a 3D scanner, I could just take the part that is not broken, scan it, then copy/print it.
This would save a lot of time and trouble.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:It would, it really would. Also helpful in completing partial duplicates where nobody's done STLs of the parts yet (*cough*ROTF Leader Optimus Prime*cough*)-Kanrabat- wrote:One thing that would be REALLY useful. Something akin to printer/scanner combo. There is a pert on one of my bot that have a broken off balljoint. Such a part is impossible to repair. But if I could have access to a 3D printer that included a 3D scanner, I could just take the part that is not broken, scan it, then copy/print it.
This would save a lot of time and trouble.
That being said, broken-off ball joints aren't necessarily impossible to fix - I should know, I've had to mend a couple in my time. I may be able to advise on repairs.
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