Mastodawn

💯 vcs and tech bros act like they cured cancer with Gen AI. Lmao. In reality, they just stole every thing out there while causing large amount of environmental damage to build a slop machine and slop OS.

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Yet another Josh

Mar 17

@nixCraft To be fair, I've repaired a few thousand dollars of stuff that would have been thrown out by using 3d printing.

The big problem so far is there's not really a repository of "3d printable commercial replacement parts" repositories. And the skill to design those parts still requires a lot of CAD skill.

I happen to know a bunch in CAD.

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Siim Ošur Mar 17

@crankylinuxuser @nixCraft Isn’t the biggest problem the material. Someone already mentioned it indirectly that the impracticality comes from the plastic itself. You aint 3D printing piston rings, ever. Drone parts sure but heavy duty, nope. Or am I wrong here?

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Vinicius (PY2VMH)

@nixCraft @crankylinuxuser @siim Different manufacturing methods are useful in different parts. Plastic 3D printing is useful for some plastics (some, not all), and even then, it can still not be ideal for many parts because the parts end up very anisotropic (different strengths in different directions). Also, the plastics used in common 3D printers are very weak and the nozzles are very wide (so you can't have precision parts without postprocessing).