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Originally Posted by island911

"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..

Makes sense. 3D printed is essentially automated layering. From that point of view, building a brick wall is made the same (but not automated). If you got a robot of some sort to build a brick wall or brick house, then it would essentially be 3d printed.