I can imagine the material being deposited creates a limiting factor or at the very least an unwieldy print head
unless you could deliver the material faster with a multidirectional nozzle in a controlled manner.
(, Sat 1 May 2021, 0:28, Reply)
I read an article about that recently
www.imeche.org/news/news-article/morphing-3d-printer-nozzle-enables-complex-new-creations
Presumably still in experimental stages at the moment. Of course, "The team is also in discussions with the US Department of Defence about using the morphing nozzle to support the production of weapons" because obviously that's the priority.
(, Sat 1 May 2021, 10:46, Reply)
Depends on whether it would reduce costs and overhead for the department of defense.
Then they could reduce their budget*
*for weapons, while increasing the budget for weapon making machines and companies by a higher amount
(, Sat 1 May 2021, 16:25, Reply)