XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, sci.electronics.design   
      
   In sci.physics krw@notreal.com wrote:   
   > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:11:27 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >   
   >>In sci.physics krw@notreal.com wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:45:42 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>In sci.physics Jeff Findley  wrote:   
   >>>>> In article <24vf3e-srm.ln1@mail.specsol.com>, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com   
   >>>>> says...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I can see a few, very few, people printing junk jewelry, mostly teenage   
   >>>>>> girls.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Perhaps, but have you been to a craft store in the last 5 years?   
   >>>>> They've been selling commercial 2d robotic cutters for many years that   
   >>>>> are about the size of an ink-jet printer.  The stupid thing shows   
   >>>>> absolutely no sign of stopping even though the "cartridges" which   
   >>>>> contain the cutting patterns are DRM protected and *very* expensive.   
   >>>>> They are mostly used by people who like to do scrap books, but others   
   >>>>> use them for making their own greeting cards and etc.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> In those same craft stores is a large jewelery making section.  Those   
   >>>>> "memory bracelets" people make are a hot thing because "every item on it   
   >>>>> represents a memory".  In other words, these things are already highly   
   >>>>> customized.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> So, I wouldn't discount the notion that the crafts stores might start   
   >>>>> selling very small 3d metal printers for making little dangling things   
   >>>>> for jewelery (memory bracelets, necklace charms, and etc.) since this   
   >>>>> would drop right into the market-space.  They would only need to print   
   >>>>> at most 3" x 3" x 3" to cover 99% of the jewelery market.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That same metal printer would sell "big league" at game stores where   
   >>>>> custom cast characters for board games are already a huge market.  In   
   >>>>> other words Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, and etc.  Even if an   
   >>>>> individual player wouldn't want one, every damn game store on the planet   
   >>>>> would want at least a couple.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Jeff   
   >>>>   
   >>>>By those standards black powder firearms will take over the firearms world.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>I'm not saying there is not and will not be a bunch of niche users of   
   >>>>3D printing.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>What I am saying is that 3D printing is not going to be the next industrial   
   >>>>revolution.   
   >>>   
   >>> Personal 3D printing won't be the next industrial revolution.  3D   
   >>> printing is already revolutionizing engineering.   
   >>   
   >>Nonsense.   
   >>   
   >>3D printing is simply making some prototypes easiery to make.   
   >   
   > Just as PCs made prototypes *faster* and easier to design.  Rather   
   > revolutionary.  Really.   
      
   Actually real engineering companies were using CAD software well before   
   there was such a thing as a PC. Really.   
      
   >>CAD software has to a certain extent revolutionized engineering, but that   
   >>is very old news.   
      
   > And 3D printing takes it to the next level.   
      
   That and N/C controlled mills and lathes.   
      
      
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