challenge and 3D printers?

What are the rules relating to 3D printed parts made at home?

sssshhhhhhhh don't ask, it should just be material cost as the printer is a tool, right? RIGHT?

cost for materials and price of the CAD Files?

mad_machine wrote: cost for materials and price of the CAD Files?

Buy some software and make your own models

Careful, you'll have lots of new friends wanting to borrow that tool.

Same as for people who have CNC mills and scrap metal laying around. Cost of plastic wire should be fair.

This guy is actually doing the whole car on an $800 printer. http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/videos/8995908/Kiwi-3D-printing-an-Aston-Martin

Plastic Replacement Parts!! Everyone driving a modern car has had fits at one time or another with a broken plastic part. Either a replacement part isn't available or it's so expensive you can hardly bear it.

Every car owner needs a 3-D Printer. Or better yet, a friend with a 3-D Printer.

Cost of materials. It's no different from a lathe or a mill.

Its the same lathe mill discussion we had 13 years ago.

Thanks Tom, best Christmas present ever.

Thanks NOHOME! Inspirational video.

Wait. add in the 123d app and you can make/copy just about anything.

Also thinking it's a plastic 3D printer is quite the assumption as well ;)

Plastic today, but hobbyists will see metals eventually.

I want a set of 3D printed rods, of maraging steel or titanium, with cores having thousands of long elliptical honeycomb shapes like bones.

erohslc wrote: Plastic today, but hobbyists will see metals eventually. I want a set of 3D printed rods, of maraging steel or titanium, with cores having thousands of long elliptical honeycomb shapes like bones.

We can make fun metals at work. Inconel is the wimpier stuff that we can make. I can't use it at the Challenge, though, obviously.

tuna55 wrote:

erohslc wrote: Plastic today, but hobbyists will see metals eventually. I want a set of 3D printed rods, of maraging steel or titanium, with cores having thousands of long elliptical honeycomb shapes like bones.

We can make fun metals at work. Inconel is the wimpier stuff that we can make. I can't use it at the Challenge, though, obviously.

IDK-if it's available to all challengers at the same price......