Aug 252017
When I think of advances in 3D printing, it tends to be by way of improved resolution. The finer you can print, the more accurate the model you can make.
But there are other metrics one might consider. The ability to print big stuff very quickly could of course be very advantageous for certain applications, especially those that don’t need micron-level accuracy. And so… this thing:
The items shown here all look pretty floppy, so I don’t know how useful this stuff would be as furniture, but I can see how a setup like this could be used to print off, say, a chair in just a matter of minutes. Given the speed involved, the per-unit price might even be competitive with that of an injection-molded chair.