The 3D printing revolution | DW Documentary

Three-dimensional printing promises new opportunities for more sustainable and local production. But does 3D printing make everything better? This film shows how innovation can change the world of goods.
Is the way we make things about to become the next revolution? Traditional manufacturing techniques like milling, casting and gluing could soon be replaced by 3D printing -saving enormous amounts of material and energy. Aircraft maker Airbus is already benefiting from the new manufacturing method. Beginning this year, the A350 airliner will fly with printed door locking shafts. Where previously ten parts had to be installed, today that’s down to just one. It saves a lot of manufacturing steps. And 3D printing can imitate nature's efficient construction processes, something barely possible in conventional manufacturing. Another benefit of the new technology is that components can become significantly lighter and more robust, and material can be saved during production. But the Airbus development team is not yet satisfied. The printed cabin partition in the A350 has become 45 percent lighter thanks to the new structure, but it is complex and expensive to manufacture. It takes 900 hours to print just one partition, a problem that print manufacturers have not yet been able to solve. The technology is already being used in Adidas shoes: The sportswear company says it is currently the world’s largest manufacturer of 3D-printed components. The next step is sustainable materials, such as biological synthetic resins that do not use petroleum and can be liquefied again without loss of quality and are therefore completely recyclable. This documentary sheds light on the diverse uses of 3D printing.
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[@karthikanand1000]

As a research scholar from the Mechanical Engineering Domain, "I have always been fascinated with ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY (3D printing) and also fixed this as my research area. Thanks for the amazing documentary DW. In future, we need more & more documentaries from DW in this area. Thank You.

[@Ratkill]

You'll never truly appreciate the absolute MASTERPIECE a 3d printer can make until you've designed parts for plastic injection. Suddenly almost no geometry is forbidden, you can make things INSIDE OTHER THINGS. I cant overstate my happiness

[@MrFujinko]

True, print in place chains feels like magic.

[@JasmineAHart]

I LOVE GEEKS !!!

[@onebluguy2692]

I just got one today... its now 3:30AM and here i am... printing away... and finding more stuff to print lol

[@MrFujinko]

@@onebluguy2692 have fun man, good luck

[@dewexdewex]

There are several limitations. These are down to gravity, anisotropy in the finished product and most importantly, lack of scalability.

[@majstor76]

3D printing is return of that custom manufacturing that existed before industrial revolution, with a modern twist. It works also nice in home environment, i have printed broken hinge on my moms trashcan.

[@abhisheksopariwala7930]

Did you print metal hinges??

[@majstor76]

@@abhisheksopariwala7930 No, it was plastic hinges, small trashcan for kitchen. Cheapest metal printers are in range of about 100-150k $ and printing hinges for trashcan is not good use for them ;D

[@ron8482]

I did a similar thing with brackets for my roman blind, designed in tinkercad.

[@CatherineSTodd]

@@majstor76 : how much did your 3D printer cost?

[@abhisheksopariwala7930]

@@majstor76 can you please provide me some information regarding 3d metal printer machine manufacturers?

[@AaronSchwarz42]

I started printing a 3-axis Tourbillon movement on FDM with 99 parts, 35 printed in PLA, 51 metal screws, 7 precision bearings in 2 sizes, & 3 metal rods shafts for bearings to enable precision in the movement / from thingiverse / Amazing what even a cheaper FDM PLA setup like Prusa Mini can create // slower speeds makes cleaner prints for high precision gears etc // I get good results at 220 C for layer bonding on Prusa Mini with regular PLA // Happy 3D printing // PLA really fun because its biodegradable & mostly made from cornstarch as pointed out in the video //

[@AaronSchwarz42]

I live out of a room & do not have a machine shop to make a high precision metal tourbillion movement for fun // but making it bigger out of PLA for fun great DIY project!

[@MrBluntNose]

Did you design it yourself or did you get the STLs from somewhere?

[@indieisin]

Hobbyists are really buying up 3d printers faster than most people realize. I work at a place that sells computer electronics, and the Ender 3 Pro printers sell like hotcakes! There are other industrial printers we carry that have a hefty price tag but they print with just about any material -- 3d printing is definitely the future.

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi Julie, thx for sharing your experience, stay tuned & enjoy!

[@inorganicintelligence-IoI]

How much electricity use is there for x number of 3D printers at an average company? And how is the electricity produced? Seems like that alone might offset any benefit...? Is it more or less than traditional manufacturing methods?

[@juanlugofitness]

I want to get one but I don’t really know how much I’m going to use it.

[@majstor76]

@@inorganicintelligence-IoI average hobby printer draws about 70+ W per h. It can get higher depending on size of printer/ type of filament etc.

[@informing_]

I have an Ender 3

[@shenanagizer]

How to get a free 3D printer: Step 1: Buy 3D printer Step 2: Print 3D printer Step 3: Return original 3D printer

[@automationsociety3058]

3D problems require 3D solutions

[@aleksandersuur9475]

That was the basis for the original RepRap project that kicked off the entire home 3D printing thing and now most home 3D printers are derivatives of these designs one way or another. Self replicability didn't really survive though, Prusa is the only 3D printer seller that still does it in any capacity and even there it's almost decorative.

[@TheMrPopper69]

Search Prusa, their 3D printers are mostly printed by them, their farms are amazing.

[@patprop74]

So you will printer out nema motors and a controller board before returning the print huh ?

[@RipMinner]

LOL

[@jeffsabel9363]

I have been designing and building plastic injection molds for the medical industry for the last 26 years. I have been designing and 3d printing at home as a hobby for the last 2 years. As soon as 3d printing becomes either scalable or much much faster through technological advances we will see a paradigm shift in manufacturing. We are currently making water cooled cores that are made from a single piece of 304 stainless steel with a layer being printed and machined in the same machine. Combining the 2 processes in 1 machine tool allows us to manufacture geometry that would be cost prohibitive otherwise. I'm looking forward to the future!

[@CU96821]

Excellent work on this video! 👍🏻

[@tidianediallo6860]

Amazing documentary ! really i want to congratulate the team and the work put to make this research possible!! very valuable indeed.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to comment and are glad you liked the documentary! 🙂

[@Darthmufin]

It's not your documentary lmao, are you blurring the logo on the screen because you own it? Please. @@DWDocumentary

[@mardigbidanian7119]

The technology is advancing at an exponential rate

[@michelleroxy21]

The part where used plastics are being reused as filaments for 3D printers to make sustainable eyeglass frames & other things is pretty sweet

[@Arek_R.]

Fun fact: technological advancement of the FDM 3D printing technology has been held back by at least 10 years because of the patents on the original inventions, machines were sold by that company with 6 digit price tags and kept overpriced until patents expired and only then low cost 3 digit machines took off. Yay humanity unite!

[@miklosmezei1802]

Yeah don't innovate,because it will be used by others! But your joke aside, after the patents expired we had to wait ~10 years for affordable printers, because the hardware was too expensive.

[@sutapamazumdar1338]

Lou rassy statement -- "moving parts with the power of technology, now at the speed of light." Brilliant!

[@nabhamgupta3626]

3d printing is awesome👌🏻 Flexibility in design and prototype process 😃😁 Nice documentary 🤩

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @Nabham Gupta, Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts on 3D printing. :-) We hope you find more content that interests you on our channel. For specific topics, check out our playlists. Best, The DW Documentary Team

[@sidraines]

Great documentary. Will be cool to rewatch this in 10 years time to see what gains were made and achieved

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching!

[@jetsetter8541]

DW#1 & THE Best. My humble wish is that DW would make the presentation about 3D PRINTING as a Bio3DPrinting. It is selfexplenatory ; I mean application of 3D BioPrinting in Dentistry plus all fields of medical applications, including bones and organs. Nano3DPrinting can be the next advanced technology and biotechnology. Today's fantasies are tomorrow's inventions or necessary products of daily living.

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi Junior Jetseter, thx for your huge compliment and your proposal! There is yet no plan to do such a topic, but that might change. Stay tuned & find out

[@CatherineSTodd]

And this proves we really are nothing more than robots, with a conscience (perhaps) and even rarer, a soul. How do we 3D print that?

[@cyrillyric8339]

@@CatherineSTodd With Nanotech

[@MrDanieluy]

La liviandad del enfoque de los reportes de DW llama poderosamente la atencion

[@simpernchong]

3D printing is great for small volume custom pieces... but for mass manufacturing, injection molding can't be beaten, at the moment.

[@Austinniya.]

yes it can be if you have a factory full of 3d printers ,times by, hundreds of these factories.

[@YTKrzysztof]

impresive

[@Omniwoof]

Great video. Didn't need to bit about the liberator gun but very good none the less.

[@OrbitalCookie]

This documentary is a gold mine of business slogans

[@anth0r]

I’m kicking myself in the butt right now because I didn’t start to try and learn about this years ago when I first saw 3d printers becoming available to average consumers. I just started two weeks ago. I failed so bad. lol

[@DqrlingHaylee]

Congrats my teacher made us watch this for graphic communication! Since we’re all off today we got sent the link and I was crying when I heard it all-

[@ddiana90]

DW reportes did an amazing job again! They made me feel like I actually understand now something about technology! 😆

[@cosminmorga1331]

Thanks for the video

[@teresabenson3385]

In the early days of the internet in the U.S., a search engine named Lycos ran ads in which a person would say, "Hey Lycos, get me some swim fins!" and the fins would roll out of a conventional ink printer. Everyone understood that they would actually arrive via delivery service. However, that ad may have been more prescient than they realized!

[@Hoxgene]

this is incredible

[@08wolfeyes]

The downside to 3D printing, as mentioned in the video, is that it is slow and to mass-produce items would be difficult. It does however have an advantage over say, injection printing which has to have a large mold made for the parts to be made from which of course takes time. Once made though it can produce parts without too much problem over and over again. People having 3D printers in the home would reduce the need for shipping and delivery which would, of course, cut down emissions. The downside to that is that you ( The owner of the printer ) would need to make sure you have the right material for the item being printed which might also take time and once again, would be needed to be delivered to you and so would again, add to emissions. It's clear that there are good and bad points about all the options available and they seem to come close to one another on production costs, emissions etc.

[@autohmae]

I wonder how long it will be before it's combined in one manufacturing line, 3d print the mold and do mass production with the mold.

[@samuelthompson8009]

@@autohmae Companies interested in remaining competitive are already doing this. The others will scoff, but early adopters will have the last laugh. Note all of those who mocked "dreamers" and futurists in, say... ... the personal computer industry... ... e-commerce... ... smart phone [hardware + software] development... It's actually shocking just how many of "the big ones" can maintain their egos even with so much archived precedence screaming at them to change steer their ships away from their own arrogant doom.

[@autohmae]

@@samuelthompson8009 A big company like, for example, Intel can take some years to re-invent themselves because they have sooo much cash "lying around". It's like someone having made enough money to 'take a few years of sabbatical year'

[@shawntipton5078]

nope, 3D printing is fast and is becoming wide spread, sometime within the near future (next 40 years) it will be possible to print large objects in minutes most likely and will end shops and such, just as the internet is displacing retail stores now

[@dancorvalan3205]

Great job DW! I'm a fan of your work.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching! We're glad you like our content. :)

[@patrickmurphy3759]

3d printing guns is misunderstood and misrepresented in this piece. The fact is a skilled craftsman can make a gun in his home shop with a relatively limited amount of tools and always has been able to.

[@juliejay5436]

True!

[@SemGabelko]

Not everyone is a skilled craftsman

[@Ratkill]

@@SemGabelko True, but I'd still say that the simple water pipe "slam shotgun" you can make from hardware store materials is much more reliable and dangerous than anything I can print on my FDM, even with nylon or fiber filaments. You do still need a decent bit of non printed parts of you want anything to fire more than a few times. I think anyone that can make a serviceable firearm on a printer already has the skills to make something without it.

[@DnBastard]

@@SemGabelko google homebrew guns. Believe me most of that stuff works and skilled craftsmanship had nothing to do with it.

[@quattrocity9620]

Exactly. And that journalist would be more likely to blow his hand off than hit the prime minister from that distance.

[@danielkraus5662]

When they were talking about ghost guns it wasn’t a new concept to make ghost guns they did wood ghost guns and various other materials also. It’s just 3d printing makes it easier for people who don’t know much about guns to easily produce it. The problem with making ghost guns using 3d printing. The 3d printed ghost guns are usually one shot guns or you need a heavy duty printer to print PC material which could be in the price range of a new car.

[@889976889]

Ghost guns is a made up term

[@warfaze2]

I have always been fascinated with 3D printing. Thanks for the amazing documentary DW.

[@patprop74]

look for a document called Print the legend on netflix.

[@grayinggreen1]

the edm music inserted near the end is hilarious lmfao

[@CT37BN]

Absolutely fascinating watch. Future of 3D printing is just immense.

[@1arritechno]

Whilst 3D Printing is a "great addition" to the workplace ; this Video overstates its importance & exaggerates its place in the Manufacturing sector. Many products can be cast or stampped out in seconds or CNC machined in a fraction of the time it takes to 3D print it. So, 3D Printing is good in one sense "but" in most instances; too slow for mainstream manufacturing - more like R & D "one off" components & for hobbyists it's great.

[@NicolasNarvaezB]

Excelent documentary! :D

[@danmerillat]

I know they included it just for shock value but does anyone know what system they used for the color+clear print process at 15:58 because if it's anything but "we printed the organs and a negative then cast it in resin" I'd be seriously impressed. I've never seen clears solids that clear on anything.

[@imadekrisnataharimulya3130]

Thats great, can make any shape of product without any casting or plastic injection process...

[@mooraymachine5019]

I find that these videos touting 3D printing manage to consistently do three things: state the true benefits of 3D printing, mistakenly allow CEOs and various middle managers to obfuscate the true benefits of 3D printing using a lot of flowery business jargon and bold predictions, and act as though no improvements have been made to other manufacturing processes during the last 50 years. Until this technology advances way beyond where it is today, the real benefits of 3D printing are prototyping and manufacturing previously impossible-to-produce shapes. Those points are clear in this video, but the narration would have us believe that in short time we will have no skilled labour and no other manufacturing processes and even secondary industries need to be worried. There is a reason we have machining, welding, stamping, forging, casting, etc. Each of those processes offers its own value to the manufacturing industry. It will never make sense to print 20' bars of steel. It will never make sense to print millions of connecting rods.

[@SoCalFreelance]

3D printing should stick to its core competencies - prototyping and on demand low volume parts. And these on demand shops should be full service with 3D printing, 5-axis milling, CNC machines, micromachining, laser cutting, carbon fiber fabrication, heat treatments, coatings, electronics, hydraulics, and pneumatics integration.

[@Crowned-Qwesi]

Its like you are saying the computer and mobile phone are only meant for business use. Tech evolves. Get used to it.

[@jakesaari7652]

Who cares how long it takes to print? Look at that thing go! We should base our manufacturing on hobbyist enthusiasm.

[@sayinakoteswari2962]

Sir which Standard is used for 3D printed insole compression test @DWDocumentary

[@behindthemask3555]

Amazing!

[@travellingonuptozion5658]

Thanks for sharing

[@TheGrevel]

Interesting information, 3D printers are growing so fast..

[@daveotuwa5596]

3D printing is totally dope!

[@ramsesrameez5430]

This new 3d manufacturing components is just great...

[@jakp8777]

3d printers are great for prototypes or low volume with no tooling costs. However, a plastic injection machine takes seconds to mold a product, 3d printers take longer just to warm up. Anyone who states traditional plastic injection machines are going away in lieu of 3d printers either don’t understand the technologies (and alternatives like a injection machine) or is a reporter trying to dramatic to create a clickbait headline.

[@lalo6580]

yes so true! they have been showing up technologies as SLA like faster than FFF when is the opposite and it has restrictions within large scale prototypes.I have my bet more to medical aplications so i'm being investing on organic printing research , that's where the real future goes as well with metal parts for Aeronautics,where the request for special designs is more useful than having a toothbrush with cute patterns or some nike's snickers with a sole 10 more expensive than the traditional ones.

[@emmanuilushka]

3d-printing is way more complicated thing. It allows you to make heterogeneous structures. Femtosecond projection TPL is a volumetric 3d-printing technology to work at nanoscopic scale.

[@axel3895]

It's still in initial stage of development that's why it's better to jump in now

[@superkillr]

How much does a small injection mold cost.. say to produce a coffee cup like object?

[@deniszaika9534]

Recently my clients were trying to print parts supposed to be cut from sheet of metal. It's terrible: huge amount of supports and finally broken parts, lack of precision, waste of material.

[@lim8581]

The promise of 3D printing to revolutionize manufacturing is both exciting and challenging. This documentary delves into the potential of this innovative technology to save resources, create efficient structures, and even lead to sustainable materials. Thanks to the documentary for illuminating the path to a more sustainable and efficient future.

[@davidmccann4562]

Amazon you need to get into this immediately please

[@uaateacher]

Wanderful doc congrats!!!!!

[@Artnovetor]

Muito bom parabéns

[@firaolaweke7777]

It is excellent work!

[@Larrythebassman]

Aaaaaa yesss 💥✨ welcome to the Future 🤖🛰🛸✨

[@Heartadia]

3D "Printing" technology has been around for nearly 100 years. It just wasn't look at this way in the past. The earliest CNC milling machine came into the world during T-Ford Era. Of course, they weren't digital machines, but manually moved around, hammered, finished, molded etc. Than you had pseudo NC machines around the 40's-50's. Than came the digital CNC of the 60-70's. Very simple codes creating quite complex objects in 2 and 3 Axis. Than in the 80-90's came industrial sized 3D 'printers' but they weren't FDM style - more so resin via UV laser or laser sintering. 3D printing is truly a wonderful technology and hobby / profession and i hope it expands into every corner of the world.

[@EltoroM5]

Amazing

[@timebot000]

So glad to see this, thx!!

[@pradeeprajauriya35]

हिंदी में भी वीडियो बनाएँ। DW का हिंदी चैनल भारत में बहुत लोकप्रिय है।

[@crappymeal]

When you pair this with tokamak fusion reactors the price and Sustainability will be very attractive but might have to wait a good 10-20 years

[@crappymeal]

@Froggy Noddy yeah thats quite cool aswell and batteries are getting better also

[@SweBeach2023]

We won't have grid-scale fusion for at least another 100 years.

[@crappymeal]

@@SweBeach2023 do you think so, how comes?

[@JourneyDude]

great job with documentary :) i personally have company where we have been developing ultralight technology for 3d printing of family houses :) with approx use 30 tons of plastic waste for each house :)

[@macberry4048]

When people talk about 3d printing they don't talk about how it could improve the factories we already have with 3d printed molds

[@macberry4048]

@Peter Breis I think 3d printing is a very young technology like voice recognition in the eighties

[@saintr3394]

Great technology... I remember back in 1997 when i was bidding to manufacture missile parts through boeings defence department.... the challenge was to reduce the tooling costs I had the idea of using injection molding (die cast) and was laughed at by venture investors regarding purchasing an injection molding already established to manufacture the 6,000 sensor support structure pieces at a cost of about 33,000 each. The injection molding would have lowered the cost per unit to about less then 7,000 dollars each I lost the bids due to the time frame in placing the bids.... and around 2002 boeing sent memos to all suppliers.. 2 quotes.. hard tooling and injection molding :) Take the old machines that will become useless and send them to third world countries with cheap labor

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi saint r, thx for sharing your experience, stay tuned!

[@muzysaybum]

And by having lost those bids, you have less blood on your hands.

[@macberry4048]

I would really like to know how the military uses 3d printing technology

[@carlosquiroz7819]

In the future every home will have 3D printers

[@woulg]

And the home itself will be 3d printed too! And the printer! ;)

[@Bijimaru_69]

its already happens. lol

[@akshayshetty5548]

Homes will be made with 3 d printers

[@SHOCKPROOFX]

Awesome video!

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @SHOCKPROOF™, Thanks, glad you thought so. Be sure to check out our channel for more documentaries. Best, The DW Documentary Team

[@erwinz5926]

Wer backt das beste Brot? Wer braut das beste Bier? Wer hat deutsche Welle? Wir Wir Wir. Wirklich guter Beitrag. Auch als deutscher im Ausland, ich verweise wirklich gerne auf DW und dessen journalistisch hervorragende Qualität.

[@CryptoRootz]

great video

[@eddierazon8666]

Adidas is kind of I like specially made in Germany I was wearing a berkenstock

[@PhuocNguyen-ij2mu]

There are a lot of people who will become unemployee. But that is a upgrading process and we can not resist it.

[@diskdrive123]

3D printing is only going to work economically if: 1. It can't be molded, be it design or material. 2. Unifies many parts into a single part in a practical way 3. Some printers might be able to give finer details than molding.

[@theturkanabus3610]

Product durability is the main reason 3d printing has never taken off

[@Dogbertforpresident]

Ray Kurzweil predicted this back in 2009. Once a product is digitized it will advance at an exponential rate.

[@garyvee6023]

WOW.... how big would that cladding be here in Australia..., MASSIVE.

[@vonster22]

There are a lot of engineered plastics that cant be 3d printed...cast plastics & pultrusion all add different characteristics that are needed for a good part

[@petergambier]

Thanks for this DW, certainly lots for thought, perhaps like the toaster or washing machine there'll be one in every home. The motorbike's a clever bit of engineering as is so much in this film, especially the entire human model printed in one go (15:59) and the aluminium printing but never realised how small a part it plays in global sales, although if it takes 900 hours to make one wall you might see why. The Israeli reporter that smuggled the plastic gun into the parliament building should be praised for showing up how vulnerable the security was, instead he was lambasted for it. Every day, when washing up we also wash the plastic, dry it out and stuff it into a clean washed plastic bottle (plus lid) and stuff it in with a poker. Been doing this in our family for a few years now and probably have about half a ton bag of them to date, it also gives my 85 year old mum a bit more purpose in her life and a little less rubbish for the landfill. Wouldn't it be great if you could use all mixed waste plastic for 3D printing. Perhaps those bottles could be put into the printer like cartridges in a pen. Of course I realise that there are a zillion types of plastic that cannot be combined, but in my astoundingly amazing printer, all the plastic is melted and combined into one polymer pool. Alternatively a lot of our packing and wrapping could be made from industrial hemp and farmers could be subsidised to grow the stuff instead of the crops grown simply to fill the quota for the heavily subsidised and uneconomic biodigester built near my home in SW England. Hemp need no pesticides, herbicides or fertiliser because it grows like a weed and has 1000 uses. In the 1900's it was compulsory to grow hemp on US farms and all the ropes and rigging of the WW1 Royal Navy fleet was made from hemp.

[@igorchak48]

Zal Tech is kind of cheap there, those Anycubic printers are budget printers...

[@bigmedge]

There was a few seconds in the video about 3D printing aluminum , but why nothing about 3D printing individualized/mass produced steel parts/assemblies ? If 3D printing factories are to take off close to where the products are needed like people hope , efficient 3D priniting of steel will play a huge role in accomplishing this goal since so many s as autimotive/building construction/vessel parts are obviously manufactured from steel

[@ishanishan6199]

Its amazing one layer printed object

[@ruggedtechie5867]

It's been around awhile now , I've been doing it for over 12 years . It should have been everywhere already , late is better then never.

[@MichaelDavis-bz2wi]

Vibration frequency and wavelength energy

[@badmojjo]

The transportation and environment issues is debatable. Let's say there is a 3D printing service that uses a few standard materials and consumables. It is not necessary to get these with multiple transport operations/trucks. Even when I print multiple times, I only rely on a big order of PLA/ABS/powder. In exchange I can make multiple types of objects. Besides, it's quite amazing how much you can print with just one roll of ABS / case of resin if you know what you are doing. I believe that 3D printing in its optimized state will be way less wasteful than any other method of production...

[@tayro7265]

There will be a time when you'll lookup whatever you need to buy on line. Then tell your local ZIPPY PRINT to make it. Drive like a mile to a pint/un-print mini maker. Bring in your old part so it can be un-made and pick up the new part.

[@davidprice875]

The section at 22:00 which describes an economist comparing phone case domestic printing versus mass production in Asia concluded both were equivalent because if the higher energy usage and cost of the domestic printer. But I can choose to print my parts when my roof is generating solar power effectively reducing the marginal cost of printing to zero. The economist might need to consider a wider context than mass production.

[@MrFujinko]

There is no other context. Injected parts are orders of magnitude cheaper. They are stronger, more dimensional accurate and efficiently made. This idea of people printing their own stuff is ludicrous. People want to buy a product and not worry about all the problems of making one. Adjusting parameters, leveling beds, taking care of the machine and so on. But again, 3d printed parts compared to injected parts don't stand a chance. In the time it takes you to print a part you could have injected a thousand. Cheers.

[@davidprice875]

@@MrFujinko But in a domestic context I don't need a thousand, I only need one and I want it styled as I wish when I wish it, not be restricted to what some manufacturer wishes to impose on me nor when they will make me wait to buy it. And what happens to all the injection molded ones that never sell, they are pure waste of material and energy. Injected molded parts may be cheaper to make but they have to be shipped and generate profits all along the chain so are not cheaper to buy. 3D Printing also allows you to do things you could never do with injection molding such as composite materials, composite structures, eg embedding electronics and other elements within the object, low entry costs, prototyping and low unit runs, fewer constrains on materials and geometries, correct mistakes at no additional cost as you go along. Another property of the process is that the 3D Printer can scale from very small to very large, large enough to print a house.

[@injoyinmyself2018]

Printing synthetic tissue and bone. Smart molecules that rearrange themselves into different forms.

[@raymondhgerard]

if the 3 D printer could move faster then it could ready be something to have and use in any company

[@techrisemedia]

really love 3d printing.

[@charleswaddell9389]

Have to watch this for EDT hw

[@jjosephm7539]

3D printing with newer materials will reduce the need for imports from "you know where."

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

CHinaa

[@fluffyhamster550]

J josephm Yes and then we will make them go bankrupt 😈

[@patprop74]

the only problem is, Most people are buying 3d printers from "you know where" and "you know why"

[@werner1]

@O T filaments and 3d printers from china, I'm now choosing to support other countries but i suspect it's not that easy getting away from china I can buy filaments from north america or Europe but other components likely will still be made in china with a different sticker on.

[@werner1]

@@patprop74 regretfully guilty! my filaments as well but no more it will be more expensive but the quality will likely be better.

[@thomascrane7547]

Yesss..NO wasted material or resources

[@malfattio2894]

People were saying a lot of the same stuff about 3D printing 7 or 8 years ago and little seems to have changed since then

[@macberry4048]

Patents started expiring in 2019

[@yessikaalexandraperezvilla9666]

THIS VIDEO ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENT FOR ME IS THE BEST! BECUASE NO ONLY I CAN STUDY AND PRACTICEC MI ENGLISH BUT ALSO, I CAN LEARN ABOUT THI, IN FACT I THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR OUR FUTURE!!!! THIS IS THE NEW ERA!! ... GREETINGS FROM BOGOTA COLOMBIA!

[@StarLabs3D]

Interesting

[@warrior4454]

Thanks for such a cool informative episode.love from India

[@MisterMakerNL]

The revolution is already here, it is not a big corporate revolution where big businesses make a lot of money from, unless your name is Prusa. POWER TO THE MAKERS!

[@kcmn0089]

3 D printing just seems like a way to quickly get a prototype.

[@jakesaari7652]

Yes, but we really like watching them print, so if it takes 100x times longer to make it that's ok.

[@deniszaika9534]

There are still a lot of things you can't reasonably prototype with 3d-printers, such as sheet metal structures.

[@sargkookie3118]

On mobile? Skip to the end and hit replay to get rid of ads.

[@jarisipilainen3875]

0:27 fast? i bet mean prototype that it take so loong print

[@makasii]

amazing reportage, thx a lot for the precious content. therefore, the problem is and will long be the same again and again... as long as people invest, meaning those with the power of investment, we'll be depending on their choices and decisions, to make things happen... the problem with plastic recycling is the very sad truth about it.

[@colincampbell3679]

The Problems though as I found with even semi-fast 3D printers is, They still can take many hours to print something that a injection molder machine or a robotic machine can do in minutes even seconds at a fraction of the cost in electricity and time, Plus those type of mass production factory machine lines can do thousands of parts and even reuse the used plastic from the cuttings again by just remelting them! My 3D printer is a fast big one , it can print up to 100 mm's per second, But for good printing most printer work at 50 or 60 mm's per second. Sounds fast, But it is super slow really. Say I wish to print a big Vase ( mine can do up to 15 inches tall and 13 inches wide ) That printed big vase would still take as much as 18 hours for one print, And if the vase mid print moves off the heated bed by even a fraction of a mm, That print is wasted? And the amount of used waste filament taken off the printed item is allot, That can be reused! But only if you happen to afford to pay out £3000 for a special grinding machine that breaks up the used filament bits in to tiny pieces, Then pay out another £5000 for a special home auto melting machine that melts and extrudes out new filaments on to a spool for reuse? Plus even getting the print to stick on the bed is as I found allot often very hard to even do? So as I seen and experienced myself, 3D printing is too slow and has too many problems to do even one good print. Even if you find a good repeatable way to stick the print down and keep it there time after time! You still looking at a print taking between 3 hours to over 24 hours to do just one, But the factory mass production injection molder system can do thousands per day perfect to the mold. So as a hobby it is Okay, and still hard to do well and pricey to do since a normal filament 1 Kg spool of the resin will be from £18 upwards. So for commercial printing even on a huge 3D printer in factory, it really will be too slow too pricey too fiddly to use.

[@nidzdotnet76]

The problem is so many people run printers yet so many of them don't know how to use them properly so the output is poor. You need some way to quality control output. I've been 3D printing for over a year and it make me a little nervous to know that components in planes are 3D printed.

[@prashanthb6521]

Difficult shapes can be done more economically than conventional manufacturing. But its no use when it comes to mass manufacturing simple objects.

[@tomasbisciak7323]

Feels like bunch of advertisements stitched together.

[@michaelohalloran5332]

DW is exactly the BBC.Left wing indoctrination.

[@CentigradeMind]

@@michaelohalloran5332 Wow

[@prashanthb6521]

@@michaelohalloran5332 If everything is suspicious, then you gotta check yourself first.

[@feleafanfelea4120]

Didita mi e dor de tine tare 😍😍😍

[@mitzabiciclista1]

Doamne, cat de tare! Am ras cu lacrimi. A raspuns Didita? 😂😂😂