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crua9 t1_j46az53 wrote

As someone with a few 3D printers. No.

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The why is simple. 3D printers ARE NOT PLUG AND PLAY. Like there is a huge amount of it that could be at first. But after a bit you have to change hotends, getting the print to stick, getting the print to work, materials, clogging, and so on.

And clogs aren't as simple as a paper jam. People have broken their printer clearing a clog.

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Oh and then there is physical space. Most people live in something way too small and they hardly have enough money to live off of.

Oh and a real problem today is depending on weather (humidity in the air) is depending on the quality of the print. Most live in places where windows are a joke, and this means when it rains or whatever then good luck on that.

Chances are there would be better solutions than 3D printing. There is a theory and it actually has some working practice. This is one of the methods Claytronics https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Claytronics

It is thought one day you will have some you would have some liquid looking thing in some box or bowl or something. Or maybe it is a solid cube. Once it is program it will make whatever using nanobots. Have people coming over? It makes a chair. Are they people going? It goes back to being whatever state it was before.

Want to go to bed? It turns into a bed with bedsheets and so on. Don't want to sleep anymore. It turns back into the state it was before.

Look up programmable matter. https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Programmable_matter

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