From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   So far 3D printing seems to me similar to the scenery and prop making of   
   theatre, it can form artistic shapes mostly without function. I take it as   
   incompletely substituting for expensive machine tools or the skill of a   
   sculptor instead of replacing them.   
      
   I've been practicing hammering sheet metal into compound curves instead of   
   pursuing 3D, to make things I need but can't buy. For example a replacement   
   floor panel for my truck unnecessarily copies the no longer needed factory   
   dip priming drain hole of the original, my patch continues a stiffening rib   
   across that area instead.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)