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Work - that I do math and science and stuff all the time. Reality - I do that some times. The rest of the time is investigating why an operator put toilet paper into the gear box or other oddities. People are weird.
Hobby - that 3d printing can make anything and it's better bc it's printed. Reality - it's just another tool, does some things well, others not. 3d printed houses are, in general, stupid PR stunts.
Oh man, I can and do make a lot of wild things on my printer, but I can't count the number of times I've had to talk people out of this as a hobby. I've had my box for 7 years, I've completely redesigned the print head, the fan assembly, the extruders, the feed method, the bed, basically everything but the body of the printer. You are not going to drop $200 on marketplace and start printing miniatures this weekend. You are not going to replace all the hardware in your house with printed parts. You are not going to print an armory of ghost guns.
This isn't sci-fi replicators, this is at best goblin artifice.
Idk I have a $300 printer upstairs and you totally can just print stuff on it immediately. The days of super expensive (money and/or time) printers is past.
Oh yeah, you can get printing immediately, even make some really good stuff, but I'm taking about the people who think they can pick up some bunk diy thing and bag of pla and get professional resin detail on their first go.
Oh, yeah, it's gonna be a little rough around the edges. I don't really mind layer lines, but if you want a perfect product you're going to have to put in some design work to get it to that level and have a good printer for it.
I actually love layer lines, it's such a distinctive look and feel that few other things have. I keep a second profile for my printer that prints at 0.4/0.2 just for that feel.
I'm still amazed you can draw something on your computer and physically print it into reality. I do agree that layer lines can look pretty cool.