Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, most of the time it’s not necessary. It’s just generating trash because they want to print stuff

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Honey, that you?

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is it fun? I guess. I never saw the appeal.

    “Wow, you mean I can spend more time and headaches to “create” my own parts instead of knowing a supplier’s offerings? And still end up with an inferior product that took all night to print? And it’s just simple CAD software like for the last 40 years but now it requires Windows 11 and 64G of RAM? Joy!”

    “Sure! Why do you want to limit yourself to gears and enclosures from professional companies that have been doing it for 50 years?”

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    • HowdWeGetHereAnyways@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It really comes down to the user, as with any tech.

      I use mine to exclusively print functional parts to keep old things around the house functioning. But I also took mechanical drafting for 3 semesters and feel both comfort and enjoyment from drafting my own models. That’s not the case for everyone.

      My functional prints are almost all still in operation, some for years. Many of the parts literally do not have commercial replacements, or solve issues that exist in the commercial versions.

      I understand that I am an outlier though

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m curious about these old things around the house you keep functioning.

        I’ll give an example of an old thing I want to keep running: a 1980s cassette deck.

        Between the metalized plastic buttons, the belts, the wheels, the gears, the pressure rollers, there is nothing that can be 3D printed that even remotely approaches the finished look or function of the parts I’d need.

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