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Old 12th Feb 2014, 09:47
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DaveReidUK
 
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But to "print" a CF part that's similar in properties to a conventional one, you'd need to lay fibers in the same places and in more-or-less the same order. The printer's just automating the same process that might originally have been done manually. But it's hard to believe there aren't robots doing that already for a lot of parts -- they just aren't called 3-D printers.
In other words, the process of laying fibers, whether automated or not, can't possibly be described as "printing".
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