3D Printing

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Mister Aaron, if you've been watching HGTV's four-part series A Very Brady Renovation documenting the remodeling of the interior of the Studio City "Brady Bunch" house so it's identical to the Brady house on the Paramount Studios lot, you know a 3D printer was used to construct the missing leg of a horse statue. The process required 210 cameras and 28 hours.

HGTV’s restoration of Brady Bunch house unveiled—and they didn’t mess it up

The recreations are extraordinarily detailed.

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Do I get any trophy points for writing a 55-word sentence? That has to be a DRC record!

 

[HecticArt]

I still think that 3d printers are cool.

 

[memebag]

I'm not a fan of the term 3D printing. I know that's what it's called, and it deposits material in a similar way to printing, but technically, it's not printing. Printing is derived from the word imprinting (I think), which refers to stamping images onto a solid surface. I'd like them to call it something else.

AM Basics | Additive Manufacturing (AM)

Does it also bother you when inkjet and laser printers are called printers?

 

[HecticArt]

It bothers me that inkjets can't fly....

 

[scotchandcigar]

AM Basics | Additive Manufacturing (AM)

Does it also bother you when inkjet and laser printers are called printers?

No.

 

[memebag]

No.

But those don't stamp images onto a solid surface either. They just deposit ink.

 

[HecticArt]

Then maybe they should be called depositers?

 

[scotchandcigar]

But those don't stamp images onto a solid surface either. They just deposit ink.

I'm ok with that. It's printing, not stamping. Stamping is one way to print, depositing is another.

There are different methods for getting a tattoo, but everyone knows what a tattoo is. And no one would call an artificial limb a tattoo.

I like additive manufacturing. It's an apt term.

 

[memebag]

I'm ok with that. It's printing, not stamping. Stamping is one way to print, depositing is another.

So if depositing ink is one way to print in two dimensions, why can't depositing plastic, ceramic or metal be one way to print in three dimensions?

 

[HecticArt]

So if depositing ink is one way to print in two dimensions, why can't depositing plastic, ceramic or metal be one way to print in three dimensions?

 

[scotchandcigar]

So if depositing ink is one way to print in two dimensions, why can't depositing plastic, ceramic or metal be one way to print in three dimensions?

It's not the process, it's the concept. It's like painting.

 

[memebag]

It's not the process, it's the concept. It's like painting.

Huh?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I'm not a fan of the term 3D printing. I know that's what it's called, and it deposits material in a similar way to printing, but technically, it's not printing. Printing is derived from the word imprinting (I think), which refers to stamping images onto a solid surface. I'd like them to call it something else.

Call it like they do on Star Trek: replicators.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Huh?

I'd like Wolf to come back, so I can have someone else to argue with besides you.

Anyway...
Printing, painting, and tattooing all refer to putting a mark or finish on a base object. You don't print something, you print ONTO something. The fact that you can make an object using the same process as printing, doesn't mean it's printing. It's not; it's additive manufacturing. The term 3D printing was conceived as a cool name, and people like it, so that's the term that mostly gets used. It's like Obamacare.

 

[memebag]

I'd like Wolf to come back, so I can have someone else to argue with besides you.

Anyway...
Printing, painting, and tattooing all refer to putting a mark or finish on a base object. You don't print something, you print ONTO something. The fact that you can make an object using the same process as printing, doesn't mean it's printing. It's not; it's additive manufacturing. The term 3D printing was conceived as a cool name, and people like it, so that's the term that mostly gets used. It's like Obamacare.

You don't have to argue with me if you don't want to.

You don't 3D print something, you 3D print ONTO something. There'a always something receiving the deposited material in 2D and 3D printing.

The fact that the process is the same means we can use the same name. That's how we know things are the same.

 

[HecticArt]

Printing, painting, and tattooing all refer to putting a mark or finish on a base object.

Tattooing is putting ink INTO something.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Tattooing is putting ink INTO something.

Removable tatoos don't.

 

[HecticArt]

Those are called stickers.

 

[scotchandcigar]

This is all Aaron's fault.

 

[Aaron]

I know. And I'm still curious what that first youtube video was that I started the thread with, and how outdated it must look now 8 years later.