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Information Junky
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: an island, upper left coast, USA
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"3D printing" is simply additive machining/manufacture. (typically computer automated, but not always - see 3D printing pens)
If a robot built a brick house would we call it a 3D printed house?
Or is a house "3d Printed" only if the additive manufacturing oozes through a nozzle like an FDM printer?
Yeah, considering that additive manufacturing/3D printing also includes SLS and LOM methods, I'm going to say "no" to the Q above, and "yes" to the Q above that..
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