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-WOODY- · 7th October 2003, 11:18 AM

You know that's not too far fetched. Already there is a ( forget what you call it ) machine that can do that in a type of polymer plastic. It reads a 3d model file and feeds the information to this machine which then uses a laser to trace out the object in a bath of liquid plastic. Wherever the laser hits, it solidifies the plastic
Some R&D companies do that to test out new design ideas. I saw a program about it a long time ago. They created a prototype of a carburetor that they were testing. After it was done, it just raised up out of the plastic in some type of wire basket.

7th October 2003, 11:18 AM	#4
-WOODY- Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Homje of the Indy 500 Posts: 176	Re: Library of Electrical Parts You know that's not too far fetched. Already there is a ( forget what you call it ) machine that can do that in a type of polymer plastic. It reads a 3d model file and feeds the information to this machine which then uses a laser to trace out the object in a bath of liquid plastic. Wherever the laser hits, it solidifies the plastic Some R&D companies do that to test out new design ideas. I saw a program about it a long time ago. They created a prototype of a carburetor that they were testing. After it was done, it just raised up out of the plastic in some type of wire basket.