Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.

Fast forward well into the future & your household goods will be regularly reprinted to new designs that use ever less material.

NT

Because it is fast and cheap.

Nonsense; the items in one's house are based on price not how elegantly it was produced.

It makes no sense to honeycomb the inside of a knife handle as it would add no functionality and just increase the price.

Well, if you want to compare composite materials and 3D printing, composite materials have been around for over a half century and the usage is still trivial compared to traditional materials in just about all products other than camper shells and ski boats.

So we can expect 3D printers to still be niche in 50 years.

I didn't choose the groups and it is being posted to other groups as well.

In the overall scheme of things, aerospace is a niche industry.

Nor is is sci.niche.

Jeff Findley schrieb:

One nice thing about 3D printing is that you can create voids in places you cannot with conventional technologies.

This can help a _lot_ when putting in cooling channels (wildly important for turbine manufacturers who always fight for that extra

Good, fast, cheap - choose any two. It's obvious where the Chimp lives...

Jesus, get back to your trailer park until you gain some experience in the real world.

Well, YOU can no doubt expect that, but you're pretty well known for having your head up and locked.

You didn't? Do you not know how your newsreader works, or what?

Lightweight metal silverware is a bit of a niche area, but there is an existing market. Titanium spork is a popular item for backpackers. It's insane how light those things are. Backpackers will spend big bucks to shave an ounce off of a piece of equipment.

Jeff

What do you think the market may be for 3D printed frizzens?

frozen in time

NT

Are you saying that castings are not good?

Marketing types certainly do. Consumers have always bought toasters based on their looks. After all, the thousands of different designs all do the same thing.

Precisely what do you disagree with in the sentence?

"composite materials have been around for over a half century and the usage is still trivial compared to traditional materials"

Seems like someone insulted your binkie.

There is no reason to expect it would, particularly since the device would be mostly air. Higher speed would cost more but to just produce larger widgets wouldn't scale linearly.

Everything electronic, anyway.

And all look about the same.

I'm saying what I said.

I was trying to help you make some sense of your nonsense but I guess there wasn't any to make.

I disagree that you have included his entire thought. Given his sphere of knowledge of the use of composites, which he calls out as "camper shells and ski boats", he's obviously trailer trash.

Composites are widely used all over the place. Many of them the Chimp probably thinks of as 'traditional materials'. Both concrete and mortar are composite materials and we've been using that stuff since the Romans. Composites of various types are used all over the place, from piping to appliances to aircraft to construction materials.

Every time we see the Chimp around here he is arguing a stupid position adamantly. Perhaps you and he should get a room?

I'm sorry you're stupid and have never designed anything in the real world, but I can't fix you.