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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I get them regularly
At least 4 or 5 a month, generally along the lines of 'I've seen this 3D printing and I'd like to start a business - I can't tell you what it is unless you sign this non-disclosure agreement'. Once signed they come back with 'My idea is that I will scan wedding photos and make models of the Bride and Groom'.
It normally takes me an hour to get it through their thick skulls that:-
a) A photograph is 2D, therefore...
b) A SCAN of a photograph is also 2D so....
c) You have no 3D data to make a 3D model so...
d) IT WON'T FUCKING WORK YOU RETARD.*
The second type also boil my piss.
'How much would a 3D printer cost, I want to make models like I've seen in the magazines, y'know, multiple colours, multiple materials, anything up to about 500mm square'. I ask if they have 3D CAD, generally they answer in the negative. Once they're told they need 3D CAD (at about £3k) and the machine will be in excess of £250k, plus they'll need maintenance package at about 10% of the machine cost per year, plus the materials they ALWAYS come back with 'But, the machines in Maplins are about six hundred quid'. I find it hard to be polite.

*I wish I could actually say this but I grit my teeth and wish them well with their endeavours - then I direct them to my competitors
(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:43, 1 reply, 11 years ago)
How long do they take to build a model up?
say 20cm x 20cm?
(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:45, Reply)
Depends on the material, geometry of the part and the orientation of the build

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:47, Reply)
A plastic penis with a 'prefer not to say' orientation

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:49, Reply)
this^

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:49, Reply)
You'd need biocompatible material
Any colour preference?
(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:56, Reply)
Definitely black.

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:57, Reply)
clear

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 10:59, Reply)
camouflage

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:00, Reply)
mirror

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:00, Reply)
JEEP PATRIOT CRD

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:00, Reply)
Thought you'd have been more of a mirrored/camo kind of guy

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:00, Reply)
Piss

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:01, Reply)
Unfortunately you're limited to clear or 'rose' for biocompatability

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:09, Reply)
Baybeeee
I compare you to a cock from a rose from Placid
(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:13, Reply)
Racist printers now is it?

(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:39, Reply)
Yes, they're from either 'Murica or Israel
Your point?
(, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)

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