Originally Posted by
unmanned_droid
You'll need to explain this a bit more for me:
"I beg to differ, one has to make the leap from aerospace to modeling techniques"
Making a leap from a sector to a technique?
Additive manufacture can and does work in aerospace (although right now it's the current poster boy - look what we can do!!) But, for this specific application?
Take the Additive mindset out for a moment. This has to do more with design and manufacture for purpose and cost, airframe only.
That could, and I do stress could change, although as you point out, additive and in fact the whole promise of 3D printing is still a somewhat look at me.
Scale of production is not manhour nor size of facilities dependent.
You could have 1000 printers under one roof or 4 under 250 roofs or any combination thereof. If one needs to manufacture on the other side of the country/world, relatively (there's that word again) cost effective.
Just my tuppence.
There are other issues on the logistics side, but nothing that is a show stopper.