It works too. My Moto-X took no time to read it.

interesting software jsc. I was involved in CAD system marketing (polite term for sales) in the late '80s. A story circulated that Boeing had developed a landing gear part entirely with CAD, done the finite element analysis and somehow arrived at the part having only the metal needed to do the job a...

There's also the issue of scale, maybe granularity. if you want to make small components, you have to face the fixed size of the filaments. It may be that 3d printing isn't suitable for every part. I'm tossing all of this around because I'd like to identify blind alleys before I spend more money. As...

An outfit is marketing a printer with two extruders one of which lays down a filament with a "continuous" carbon fiber/fibers. Their site shows pretty good strength by testing. The carbon fiber is encased in thermo-setting plastic. System is operated with Cloud proprietary software which is written ...

Guys,
This has been very helpful. Thanks much for the ideas.

John

I do not yet own an M-2, other than an ancient Leica, but have been much impressed by the intelligence and creativity in the posts I see here. My ongoing project is design and construction of very small fixed-wing autonomous aircraft. I had expected structures to be carbon fiber composite and mylar ...

Steve, I'm very impressed with your handiwork and certainly with the metal extruder. Obviously it's very nice and certainly more substantial, but beyond these somewhat aesthetic considerations, are there any real advantages to this change? I should add that it is my nature to do things like this, bu...