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Gosh, there’s so much room left for improvement just with normal prints, the software needed for that must be a bear. Then there is learning it’s ims amd outs and how to tweak it… wonder if it is ready for prime time. I k ew a programmer who did custom g code by hand, could do crazy impossible things with a standard printer by hand coding. Expensive but amazing. For production parts it was totally worth it, just watching his infill patterns was mesmerizing, unlike normal which is sort of a head scratcher as to how the software thought that pattern was a good idea…

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That is a nice 5d machine!

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Imoho, we are entering new 3d print technologies which actually can change and improve manufacturing.

Ya, that's a pretty sweet setup. No supports and very complex prints.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

5D subtractive machining can do some amazing shit too but using it for printing is way cheaper because you don't have anywhere near the forces involved that machining takes. All the modern printer controllers are pretty sweet and many low cost ones have large numbers of axes they can control that are perfect for a 5d setup. I expect to see more neat stuff like that in the future. It's really nice to see resin printing go mainstream and resins come way down in price.

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Not done anything with resin printing. But have noticed some novel resins come out. Ceramic and high temp stuff is pretty interesting. Maybe used for.. what's it called? Reversed wax molds. That's not right but you can probably infer.

I'm honestly surprised more hasn't been done with non-planar printing, especially at the hobbyists level. Maybe additional axis will move this forward?