Major impact to the hobby

[glemon]

I have seen stuff about this before, and many of you probably have too, but it looks like 3d printing is going to get cheaper and more prevalent, sounds like a pretty good way to make a small run of car parts. https://news.yahoo.com/3-d-printing-goes-sci-fi-fantasy-reality-133123371.html

 

[JPSmit]

Fascinating! I have seen Jay Leno raving about it - he was making parts for a Duesy? figured it saved big bucks and big time.

 

[aeronca65t]

One of the college Formula SAE teams has a body for their car that's made up of about a dozen 3D printed parts (glued together).

We have a MakerBot at work. Here it is printing part of a VW bus. We've also printed a statue of Yoda plus other crazy stuff:

 

[NutmegCT]

As a total neophyte regarding 3D printing - don't you need a good "original" to copy? or a very good multi-view engineering drawing to scan first?

Tom