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Originally Posted by Rodnok1
Basically you have a roll of plastic or some other material(wood fiber, carbon fiber for example) and the machine melts it and it sticks to the other Plastic or the printer bed in a precise location (x, y and z dimensions).
Yes metal can be 3d printed also, there are also powder printers and others adapted to cut instead of print.
The typical 3d printer uses PLA or ABS usually.
Quality depends on filament used, software settings and the printer. You can print quickly for drafts(think before you sand wood after routing) or super slow and using the right filament it's almost undetectable it's thousands of layers.
The machines are actually simple machines and CPU's. The price point came down so the normal guy can afford them the last couple of years.
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So I"m right, it's a stretch of the common term 'print'.....it's not really printing, it's machining witch is obviously 3 dimensional....LWD