I don’t think this is 3D Printing in the way I understand it?
Puzzled?
Anyone got any info on it?
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/315641-startups-3d-printed-wooden-furniture/
Well, I remember an early 3D printer that used paper to build layers. Why not sheets of plywood?
Cut and layer -> laser cutting sheets and molds for molded plywood? Fits the shape I see in the pic.
@David_Tingley subtractive means you take away…printing means your adding to.
Can you please explain what you mean.
Subtractive CNC shaping is not 3D printing. Printing is always additive.
I would consider this a hybrid unless it requires a human to add the layers together. You subtract to make the layers and then add the layers together. The question is if the printer needs a human to add the layers together.
4 AXYZ won’t disclose how the technology works. Shah said the big secret is how the machine cuts the wood and secures layers together.
So i suppose at the core of this is an intelligent algorithm that smartly distributes the individual parts of each layer onto a wood sheet - so it really is subtractive manufacturing with a bit of manual assembly in the end, which makes it just as much “3D printed” as a typical piece of IKEA furniture. And @David_Tingley , 3D printing is per definition additive. A CNC mill, router or lathe is not a 3D printer. A laser cutter is not a 3D printer. A bread knife is also not a 3D printer.
There seems to be an increasingly barefaced use of the term 3D printing, just to ride the cool wave. I don’t think that’s a good thing.
Spark erosion printers are not additive, yet they print.
@Qitian_Dasheng_Sun_W What makes a spark erosion CNC machine a printer? I wouldn’t call it one…
@Qitian_Dasheng_Sun_W you call them a printer? I’ve worked with them for a while and never had an erosion machine referred to that way.
@Qitian_Dasheng_Sun_W you mean engrave. And thats still the wrong term.
I was referring to the old 2D foil+paper printers. They print, without being additive. (Horrible as they are, it is still printing.)
“Printing is always additive” is demonstrably false, I do not see how adding one more dimension changes that.
@Qitian_Dasheng_Sun_W so the foil and paper are 2 separate items. Additives…
Any chance you can provide a link or model name or something? 2D foil and paper printers isn’t really ringing any bells for me.
Wow. OK. Replaced by thermal printers, obvs.
The reason why three dimensions changes things is because there is a word (well, various words, really) for subtractive CNC manufacturing, and none of them are “printing”.
Really, though, it’s semantics and rather unimportant in the scheme of things.
It’s probably somewhat of a language issue as well. For example, German has a much clearer distinction between printing an imprinting (drucken, prägen).
One last thing, @Qitian_Dasheng_Sun_W - would you call a 3D spark erosion machine a 3D printer?
@Thomas_Sanladerer No, I wouldn’t, but 3D printing includes much more than just fused deposition modelling using extruded plastic.
Assembling laser-cut plywood layers is printing of sorts. I’ve seen the same process using paper called selective deposition lamination or laminated object manufacturing.
Well this has been an interesting thread!
There is a 3D printing process which I understand Staples were going to put in their shops.
As I understand it, layers of paper assembled into a 3D object.
I accepted this without question, and I think this process here is something of a similar nature.
However the issue remains, does having a manual step in the process make it something other than 3D printing?
There is also a matter of degree. You wouldn’t take large solid chunk of metal and ablate yourself a car.
But if you do, I want to watch the video.