The kit car industry is a good fit for this technology.....offer a dozen body styles, print them on demand. No inventory, no molds.....
BTW, leaving the earlier watercraft-like post. It's for a school's engineering project. Sure, they'd love to commercialize it, but they're talking about applications like 3D printed buildings and space colonization modules. (i.e. probably vaporware.) The commercial side is probably a long way off.
JoeyM wrote: The kit car industry is a good fit for this technology.....offer a dozen body styles, print them on demand. No inventory, no molds.....
Except that 3D cut foam cores to make bucks are orders of magnitude cheaper to make. Faster to setup and can be just as good.
There is a time and place for tech like 3D printing but without a major increase in work envelope's, and a major increase in speed of print this is just crazy people spending money instead of applying off the shelf solutions to the problem and trying to make something that will work in the real world.
wearymicrobe wrote:JoeyM wrote: The kit car industry is a good fit for this technology.....offer a dozen body styles, print them on demand. No inventory, no molds.....Except that 3D cut foam cores to make bucks are orders of magnitude cheaper to make. Faster to setup and can be just as good.
Yes, no question of that. They require more space, though, than a single giant printer. space costs rent. If you don't own the printer - just rent it - you can do just-in-time fabrication...a factory free car company, if you will.
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