3D Printer! Amazing!

Larry Merk · 07-25-2012, 10:03 PM

And you don't even need to buy one if you live in the right area.

A year or two ago Kitplanes Magazine (an airplane magazine) had an article about a machine shop in the San Francisco bay area that is open to the public. Besides lathes, milling machines, and other normal machine shop tools, they had one of those 3D printers connected to a PC with AutoCAD. Bring in your CAD drawing of a part, or draw it there, and 3D print the part. All you pay is time and material costs. Pretty slick and inexpensive way to prototype a part.

07-25-2012, 10:03 PM	#9
Larry Merk Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Kennewick, WA Posts: 213 Likes: 48 Liked 314 Times in 113 Posts	Re: 3D Printer! Amazing! And you don't even need to buy one if you live in the right area. A year or two ago Kitplanes Magazine (an airplane magazine) had an article about a machine shop in the San Francisco bay area that is open to the public. Besides lathes, milling machines, and other normal machine shop tools, they had one of those 3D printers connected to a PC with AutoCAD. Bring in your CAD drawing of a part, or draw it there, and 3D print the part. All you pay is time and material costs. Pretty slick and inexpensive way to prototype a part. __________________ Larry Merk