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Giant digital fabrication CNC
- nitrogen 14y agoForget wind turbines -- when can we use this for architectural purposes?
- hexagonal 14y agoMachine time for something this big is very expensive: that's why it's used for making molds, which is a fabrication technology that scales up very easily; unlike CNC machining, which doesn't scale at all. Additionally, surface finish with ±0.2mm X/Y is going to be pretty poor. It won't produce finished parts, you'll need to sand/grind it, or coat it with fiberglass and sand that. It also doesn't mention deflection under load, or feedrate through anything tougher than foam plastic.
- bobds 14y agoThere's a big 3D printer that is very suitable for architectural projects. Check it out: http://d-shape.com/ http://d-shape.com/
- mbenjaminsmith 14y agoThey don't seem to be printing houses / buildings with this technology. I wonder how readily it could be applied to that. Imagine setting up a rig on a concrete slab and having a house printed in a week.
- catch23 14y agoCNC is probably less useful for printing houses, it's great for negative molds, but harder when you have overlapping empty spaces. It's more useful to have a 3d printer here -- maybe someday we'll have 3d printers that use concrete foam to create simple prefab homes.
- mukaiji 14y agoIf Good Sir Jony Ives at Apple sees this, he's going to trip his knight mind out.