oh yeah, now that you have the cad drawings you can scale larger or smaller. also, if you get really to dreaming you can say get the 4 engines you need from the 1:72 scale of an F15 and put them on the back of a lambourgni 1:32 scale (I think) anyway you also have extra unused plastic to add other items on the car (now two seater sports space coupe) to make your own sci fi show that you didn't want to do in CGI because it took you less time to build the physical model then it would have taken you to create the thing in a CGI program.
it's more options for we consumers.
as with any change it'll be a little bit of both, mostly death to the current model.
but keep in mind instead of going to the store to buy a set of plastic pieces to glue together, you go to the store buy the model kit, it now includes, a cd and the plastic you put in the printer. you make the same type of plastic parts and glue them together like always.
now if you also want you get an editor (i.e. autocad) make a few mods and put in more detail in the cad drawing to get more detail from the model.
paint as always.
When it comes to sci fi I'd rather watch Battlestar Galactica then Star Trek, but I've seen enough trek shows to know this 3d printer thing (used to be called a Santa Claus machine in the 80's and early 90's by Radio Electronics, aka Popular Electronics, the magazine had a few other names) is going to be the biplane of the replicator. There's a few hobbyist who made these things with an fish tank, 3 axis cnc table positioner, and some plastic hardened by focused laser beam, which was the wright brother's plane.
it all comes down to money.
civil laws have been about extortion long before Ally Mcbeal made it popular.
but for right now who agrees with the following:
1. downloading music is no different then recording music off the radio. for one's own personal enjoyment (quality issues don't count, you never know what the exact quality is with what you download)
2. anybody can GIVE anybody else a copy of some music on cassette, cd, or even vinyl, just as long as the giver is not paid for what they gave away. (I think i saw some vinyl lp engravers on ebay)
3. if the software I use to help find music to download is for free and doesn't advertise or make money from the people who use the software then they are not reproducing any songs for a profit
4. ******* copying a song and giving it away is advertising for the song, musician, artist, etc, etc. *******
5. copyright infringement is when someone mass produces copies and sells those copies. or sells the right to make a copy from a controlled source (back item #3)
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oh yeah, now that you have the cad drawings you can scale larger or smaller. also, if you get really to dreaming you can say get the 4 engines you need from the 1:72 scale of an F15 and put them on the back of a lambourgni 1:32 scale (I think) anyway you also have extra unused plastic to add other items on the car (now two seater sports space coupe) to make your own sci fi show that you didn't want to do in CGI because it took you less time to build the physical model then it would have taken you to create the thing in a CGI program. it's more options for we consumers.
as with any change it'll be a little bit of both, mostly death to the current model. but keep in mind instead of going to the store to buy a set of plastic pieces to glue together, you go to the store buy the model kit, it now includes, a cd and the plastic you put in the printer. you make the same type of plastic parts and glue them together like always. now if you also want you get an editor (i.e. autocad) make a few mods and put in more detail in the cad drawing to get more detail from the model. paint as always.
When it comes to sci fi I'd rather watch Battlestar Galactica then Star Trek, but I've seen enough trek shows to know this 3d printer thing (used to be called a Santa Claus machine in the 80's and early 90's by Radio Electronics, aka Popular Electronics, the magazine had a few other names) is going to be the biplane of the replicator. There's a few hobbyist who made these things with an fish tank, 3 axis cnc table positioner, and some plastic hardened by focused laser beam, which was the wright brother's plane.
it all comes down to money. civil laws have been about extortion long before Ally Mcbeal made it popular. but for right now who agrees with the following: 1. downloading music is no different then recording music off the radio. for one's own personal enjoyment (quality issues don't count, you never know what the exact quality is with what you download) 2. anybody can GIVE anybody else a copy of some music on cassette, cd, or even vinyl, just as long as the giver is not paid for what they gave away. (I think i saw some vinyl lp engravers on ebay) 3. if the software I use to help find music to download is for free and doesn't advertise or make money from the people who use the software then they are not reproducing any songs for a profit 4. ******* copying a song and giving it away is advertising for the song, musician, artist, etc, etc. ******* 5. copyright infringement is when someone mass produces copies and sells those copies. or sells the right to make a copy from a controlled source (back item #3)