Why didn't 3D printing take off?
It took off for me
>>108019616Free Shipping from China.If you can think of it, some chink factory is already knocking out shipping containers full of them.
>>108019616It took of in the miniature 3d printing scene.But the fumes and health hazards are what is holding it back if the words and health hazards and fumes are to be true.
>>108019616Its incredibly usefulEspecially with 3d generated models and openscad ai generated code
I love mineI got a cheap $200 CAD one, Neptune 4It printed replacement parts for my headset that broke, that alone paid for itself. But I've also printed tons of terrain for warhammer etc.Tonight I printed a rubber band realistic gun. I can see why Americans like guns, feels powerful to hold even though it's not even realI got it like 8 months ago so it's still entertaining meDebating upgrading to a Carbon 2 for multi material
>>108019657Pla is mostly non toxicYeah if you print abs or something then you want to vent outside
>>108019657I meant to say miniature painting scene.I’m retarded as evidenced that I partake in buying expensive Lego minifigure sized plastics to paint.Now I am looking at some to 3d print.>>108019669Alright I’ll make test orders from Etsy services and see how that goes.I don’t have a place and any new apartment I get will most likely not be enough.
>>108019616It did take off. 3d printer labs are all over the place where I live.
>>108019668oldfag here. I lost interest when minatures when to plastic, to light to use in wargames and TRPGs. Try casting metal.https://shop.princeaugust.ie/
My town's library prints stuff for you for very little money. But that limits me to models downloaded from the internet. If I had my own printer I'd be able to learn, experiment, and make my own models.
>>108019668https://huggingface.co/spaces/ilcve21/Sparc3Dhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/microsoft/TRELLIS.2for anons that want to print thingsthese 3d generators are amazingplug in 2d pictures, out comes a 3d objectthen use something like this to convert to stlhttps://www.filer.dev/convert/glb-to-stlyou can also create openscad code from chatgpt for more structural partshttps://openscad.cloud/openscad/just ask any ai to generate code for openscad and give it your dimensionsez pz
>>108019683FDM printers aren't so great for miniatures themselves, but they're amazing imo when it comes to terrain. I've printed massive multi story/part houses, full ruins, walls, bunkers etc. Shit that GW charges 150$ you can print in 6 hours. Fun to airbrush tooBut yeah for smaller stuff FDM is pretty crap
>>108019681There was one on a high street here, it went broke. Now their is a shitty gallery there. There is a shortage of machineist shops that can make small steel parts, generally not much use for 3D printing unless it is prototyping or hobby modeling like trains or figurines (which are inferior to metal ones).
>>108019690if you live in america you can ender 3's for like 99 bucks
>>108019695Yeah I can see that. I still love trains and wagrames and RPG terrain. When I was a kid I used make train tunnels with chicken wire and paper mache and then die sawdust green and use it as flock and make little pine trees using twisted wire painted brown as trunks. I loved the grenadier era metal fantasy figurines, never like warhapper though, killed white dwarf and the whole scene. Loved airfix though but I don;t think 3D printers would give you output that was crisp enough to match airfix 1:72 scale kits.
>>108019696you can cast from 3dprints easilyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoxK2hWN4LI
I want one but I just had a baby and she is expensive. Tradwife doesn’t work. Can’t find a use case to buy a 3D printer of putting money into college savings and a trump baby fund account
>>108019700yeah, as soon as I get a job haha
>>108019726>sell 3D printed items >people buy them>use money to buy printer>print things people bought and mail themeasy!
>>108019712Oh interesting but the prince august stuff is dear to my heart and just wonderful, cast a whole army for the seven years war from it and used it to play using little wars rules by H. G. Wells (yes the same sci fi author). Cast a lot of bullets from steel and aluminium moulds as well.The thing about bullets and mdoel soldiers though is that you will reuse the mould a LOT whereas that is more a one time use thing. Still intesting for a one off I suppose.This should delight some of youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxQQ_zTEKA
>>108019616Define "take off". Plenty of people do 3d printing. Did you expect it to become as popular as 6 7?
>>108019616It did, just not for poorfags.
idk
I have a friend who has made a few hundred K from printing and selling raspberry pi based tiny TV's. I print shit for the house and the occasional toy (until the Mrs became obsessed with microplastics).Compared to when I got into the hobby during COVID -ender 3 era, printers are absolutely plug n play.
>>108019728but slightly hard
>>108019616Most are not creative.Most do not need prototypes.What exactly do you mean by >take offIn other news, desktop CNCs are getting more affordable. A lot harder to master than 3D printing, but having the option to create metal shapes is glorious.
>>108019809>desktop CNCs are getting more affordable'axes status?
>>108019616It was also going to be more of a niche thing. The average consumer would rather just buy something even if it is double the price just to avoid the hassle of doing any work. Even when the printers could make anything you could want you will still have the majority of the population buying things to avoid having to print it.
>>108019616Very little need for custom plastic parts. If you have everything you need and limited space in your house, why print a bunch of plastic?Also whittling exists and is much faster.
>>108019616>Why didn't 3D printing take off?aside from some very specific niche cases most people have no use for having a 3d printer, even if you need some hypercustom part or print, it makes much more sense to pay some tiny amount to whoever has the million dollar prices printer in your country to print it in max quality and just ship it to you once every 3 years you need something instead of buying a toy that will be collecting dust most of the time.
>>108019983>pricespriced
>>108019616Besides PLA everything will shred microplastics that are harmful, and PLA cannot be used en every single scenario.
>>108019616it's not user friendly for normies.
Every single part you might need was already fabricated by china anyway
>>108019616>>>/diy/3dpg
>>108019616no easy way to print metal, glas or wood. Hell not even ceramic. Its just all plastic everyone hates that.
>>108019616>2016: heh this will kill the figurine market>2026: figurines are more expensive than everHow did this happen
>>108019696Where I live they're mostly printing parts for quad copters and other small drones, or just printing the entire body.
>>108019690>But that limits me to models downloaded from the internet.How about.. uploading your own models.. to the internet!
PLA sux and resin turns you into the joker if you fuck up
>>108019718You would fill the house with microplastics turning your child into a mutated freak
my country is far too wet and humid for it to be of any use to me at all
>>108019616its cheap and easyespecially since the ender 3 launched
>>108019616Scooters are the new thing.
>>108019616I plan to get one after I buy a drill press, welder, and lathe which I plan to buy after I finish rebuilding the diesel engine for my truck which I plan to get started on after I buy and install a hydraulic lift in my machine shop which I plan to buy and install after I build my machine shop which I plan to get started on after I finish preparing the site to build my machine shop... which is currently on pause until I find a new job. Such is life.
>>108019664>openscad ai generated codeHoly shit how come I never thought of doing this
>>108019616Everyone has one, where the hell do you live?
>>108019616Most people I know who are even a little crafty in any way have one... Including me.
>>108021105My car's trunk button sure isn't. 3D printing let me not only replace the part but also address the shortcomings that caused the original to get lost in the first place.
I got one free from work. It's kinda fun but you lose interest quickly. Also the results are kinda shit if your printer isn't perfectly tuned
>>108019700But then my house would be full of fumes and microplastics. I can see people doing DiY resin printers where precision actually matters, but for anything else you're way better off renting unless you need huge quantity.
>>108019616It's doing fine, but the number of people who want it is in the hundreds of thousands out of a global population of billions. It was badly overhyped, yet has value.
>>108019664This is a marketing bot.
>>108022368You can't upload to the internet, it's not possible.
>>108019616huh? it did took off? where were you living during the last decade?
>>108019616I could buy one but I don't see the use caseI can get all the small junk I want essentially for free from ChinaAnd for small specialized stuff, like mechanical keyboard parts, the printed surface seems too rough
>>108019616It did take off though and went the way all technologies did. Those who have use for it seek it, those who do not or do not wish to invest the time learning it don't. There's multiple small-scale manufacturers that use 3D Printers and sell designs online nowadays for niche products where it doesn't make too much sense to outsource it to China, and it allows you to rather rapidly develop mechanisms or prototypes. The use for the average consumer is limited. Nearly every university has one somewhere for prototyping stuff, combined with cheap vendors for custom metal parts it has brought an acceleration to research and design, and enabled the common individual to produce goods with rather limited means. What you're feeling is not a lack of "took off", but rather a disappointed based upon hyped expectations that didn't materialize (e.g. print literally anything with the same quality as traditionally machined parts, which have had the benefit of being discovered sooner, thus allowing for literally thousand of years refinement and evolution).
>>108019669>mostly
>>108026707It releases trace amounts of methyl methacrylate during thermal decomposition, which can be toxic if you breathe a lot of it.Other than that, the particles get broken down to lactic acid inside the body, so it's basically the only plastic that doesn't build up over time and poison you from within.
If your a fumes sissy you can use pla which is made out of sugar
>>108019777Print farms are fake and gay until proven to be bankrolled by daddies pocket book.
>>108019616What do you mean it didnt take off? Entire industries are using 3d printing now.
>>108023900I do it with CadQuery, pretty similar. Btw. KiCad pcb projects are also text files and AI can write or check them.
>Technology that's wildly popular in the corporate or research world >"Why didn't this take off?"Does anyone here actually have a job?
