A number of years ago when 3d plastic printing was just starting to catch on, a guy at work had one of the early printers at his desk. At the time, I was designing a rather complex test rig for some aircraft engine parts. I had a design review coming up with the Chief Engineer at our customer company. I had our guy print 1/4 scale parts in plastic and took them to the design review, so everybody could look, visualize and actually assemble/disassemble them. The actual parts in metal were over $250k to build, so it was terrific to test-run the idea in cheap plastic first.
Eric
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