On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Only if the machine can print steel, ceramic along with hundreds of
> other materials. This machine does none of this - it makes parts out of
> PVC that maybe can be used as a pattern for the real thing or maybe not.
>

Tom, it's only a matter of time.  And at the minimum you are going to see,
instead of a parts shelf, a computer and a CNC machine 'printing' parts on
demand.  Already being done on a big scale in the publishing industry.  Once
the principal is proven to work it's just a matter of working out the
details.  The progression of science into a technology into engineering to a
usable product.