Next Engine - This technology is cool

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The printer for sure is really cool how it can make assembled pieces. I just really don't see the benefit of this technology. So it can make a plastic molding? How is it really all that different from using clay (or similar material) moldings?

Am I just not getting the point of this tech?

 

Yeah. It's an EXACT replica. The one they did of the steam engine part even had the crack kinda in it from the scanning.

 

So it's just more accurate than traditional moulding with clay? Or is the benefit of getting a plastic mould faster?

 

The purpose of making the plastic molds is so you can use them to make metal castings of the parts that aren't available anymore.