How about instead of a 3d printer someone just makes a laser box that can cut anything including a block of plastic
Your mom's laser box.
>>2936840go do it/thread
>>2936840Less waste with 3D printing. The majority of your blocks will be trash material at the end. Like CNC.
>>2936963>like CNCmost 3d printers are literally CNCjust like OP implied about the LASER box
>>2936840your IQ is showingadditive manufacturing which is what "3d printing" is. additive, as the name states is the opposite of subtractive which is what you suggested and you cannot create things that you can in the other. both have their limitations.
>>2936840Yes, same for buildings, we should just make a big block of concrete and drill holes to make rooms.My god you're such a retard
>>2936970Playing semantics>>2937003If there is a will to automate housing there is a way and its a solved problem. It’s called commieblocks. They’re blocks of concrete assembled in a factory and then stacked together with pipe fittings.They might make a comeback if everyone loses their jobs.They’re ugly but anyways. Laser box.
>>2936840Noobs forget that every question they can think of has already been answered and don't yet understand why they need useful general knowledge. We were all new once. I wish someone had been around to tell me "that's stupid" and WHY but that was pre-internet. I countered my ignorance by a lifetime of study which is large fun.The way to think about manufacturing is begin PRECISELY with the object design you wish to make, then find out how it's already made and choose a process appropriate to your situation (skill, tools, equipment, workspace).
>>2937093nice way to sabotage all progresseither way I'm not saying OP isn't a braindead retardOP is a retard
Why doesn't someone /diy/ the laser room from the 1st residence evil movie? It would be kino
>>2936840Re-entrant angles arent possible with that.
doesn't laser always cut through a material making it only useful for sheet goods
>>2937486nahLASERs used in such capacity are al. ost always pulsed. Each LASER pulse will disintegrate a specific amount of material, leaving a cratef and perhaps other features like a rscast zone and such.LASER engraving works, right? And if you engraved one spot a again it would be even lower relative to the parent material surface, when co. pared to the first time around.So if OP positioned their work arbitarily and focused LASER energy onto it and had the whole thing CNC controlled in a manner that is conducive to the end result they could in fact carve out many shapes. Focussing would have to be CNC controlled too and I imagine generall, poor efficiency, so the idea of bulk removal is about as retarded as OP.
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>>2936840How does that handle concave structures?
>>2938505What makes you think it wouldn't? I still think OP is generally retarded, at least with the context OP gave and all. Bit why shouldn't you be able to make say a spoon on a LASER, provided you had a 4th axis or got to flip the stock once?
>>2936963CNC means Computer Numerical Control.Per Wikipedia:"A CNC machine is a motorized maneuverable tool and often a motorized maneuverable platform, which are both controlled by a computer, according to specific input instructions. Instructions are delivered to a CNC machine in the form of a sequential program of machine control instructions such as G-code and M-code, and then executed. "See, no you are less of an idiot! You'll never not be an idiot, but now you are a tiny bit more knowledgeable.
>>2936840I think there is a consumer market for 5 axis proprietary plastic desktop mills Apple approach, Apple care, 1 size of stock you have to buy our plastic cube, you have to buy our vise, sell them chip conveyer into a shop vac separately for a huge margin Slicer just cloud nc and it holds .250” of stock in the dovetail mo matter whatCutters are preset in heat shrink and do not sell heat shrink machin yto set your own cut heights All end mills preset lengths Make it do a retarded soccer mom can’t crash and if she does she gives you a mortgage payment to get her Etsy bullshit carving machine back online Charge them $3000, that’s the price where idiots can still afford it on a credit card but expensive enough to respect the machine If it’s like $500 they’ll treat as disposable and you’ll have more technical problems with people bitching but if they almost can’t afford it they’ll try harder Also heavily market only to whites, Asians Make sure to exclude minorities in your advertising campaigns
>>2936840Milling machines and if you need smaller there is EDM can pretty much already do this.Semantics isn't really qualified because there are obvious differences between two very different manufacturing types. You're just too retarded to understand.
>>2938508How do you think it would make a hollow box.
>>2936840A milling machine is less gay
>>2938594Just like OP describes it and it's also being done quite frankly just not for thkse materials and dimensikns because thats retarded.I don't even get how you dont get it.Place stock. Get LASER pulsing, position it for stock removal where stock needs removing. Do not remove where no removal is required, switch of LASER if you have to rapid across it. Reposition Z to maintain focus and repeat until desired depth for each feature is achieved. Idk what do you think is missing?
>>2936869Isn't that the "community fingerbox" everyone keeps raving about?
>>2939124How would I remove a 3 inch cylinder from one of those without damaging it?
>>2939124shhh don't post about that here
>>2936840How about instead of a 3dprinter, you use a 4d printer and steal it from yourself in the future?
>>2939124Did you convert something like >picrelinto a fingerbox?Mine is just plastic and I'm looking to upgrade.Yes my fingerbox is 3D printed.
>>2939960picrel
Terry was working on that back in 2003https://web.archive.org/web/20030401164138/http://www.simstructure.hare.com/CottonTail/cttntail.htm
You guys a assume a laser box has to be like a cnc machine or 3d printer when it could just be a bunch of high power lasers aiming at s prism or something like a regular laser printer.
@grok please use a laser to turn this block of plastic into a hollow sphere
>>2937149Lasers are too expensive, could do it with super thin wire maybe
>>2936840anon, water jet machines exist. you get an abrasive + water solution and beam down your material into whatever your program into the machine. kek
>>2936840What if we invented 3d etching instead of 3d printing where we subtracted material instead of adding it?
>>2942406Well yes thats what i meant
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>>2936840anything you don't understand must be easy, and works by magic.
>>2936965cnc and 3d printers are complete opposites idiot.
>>2937486if you think about something too much you will realize why it isn't done. just be like OP some shit pops in to the shriveled peanut he calls a brain and that's it. no more thought, just "me so smart".
>>2940265>aiming at s prism or somethingnice technical lingo there... was that that best you could do?
>>2940360already been done.
