Originally Posted by
digitalcraft
That's pretty damn cool. One of the things I see is that not everyone will have a scanner, instead companies will keep an online database of millions of parts that can be printed when needed for casting anything. Auto companies can keep databases of all their historic parts that are no longer produced and build them to order for customers basically forever.
This is already true. The scanner is only needed when the part was designed by a different company. Most descent size companies are going to generate any new design using CAD, and if you have the native CAD file you can just send it to the 3D printer directly.
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