Additive manufacturing is not yet good enough to make a car or an
iPhone, but it is already being used to make specialist parts for cars
and customised covers for iPhones. Although it is still a relatively
young technology, most people probably already own something that was
made with the help of a 3D printer. It might be a pair of shoes, printed
in solid form as a design prototype before being produced in bulk. It
could be a hearing aid, individually tailored to the shape of the user's
ear. Or it could be a piece of jewellery, cast from a mould made by a
3D printer or produced directly using a growing number of printable
materials.
But additive manufacturing is only one of a number of breakthroughs
leading to the factory of the future, and conventional production
equipment is becoming smarter and more flexible, too.
end partial quote from:
- "A third industrial revolution". The Economist. 2012-04-21. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
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- By the way people HAVE USED 3d printers to build the bodies of cars in pieces since this was written. They just bought 3D printers big enough to build a plastic or fiberglass type of body with it.Also there are also 3D printers big enough to build a home especially with cement all over now.
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