plm not sla

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pdm

Ima just get a reality e3

I can't think of any project besides guns which I can legally do now

Maybe I will design my own guns lmao. Im not even that interested in doing that I just need to find a time consuming project that I actually want made

*fdm

But i can't even buy pistol ammo so thats gay

America where a legal adult can build a pistol but cant buy ammo for it

what kind of things would you want to make that require more organic/freeform modelling @pd ?

im pulling up some data rn i can show you

i dont really know anything about cad modelling btw, just interested

ah

looks like car panels and such?

indeed

this is a headliner

cool

i used to think they did this with surfaces

but that's impossible

my job is usually to take this and turn it into a tool

like this

ahh

which is harder than it looks

so these things get stamped out of a section of plate then?

or into

Lol i made a replica juul in solidworks

it's soft trim so the actual part is made of basically plastic, fiberglass, and a covering material like vinyl or cloth

you take sheet material and compress it into a shape

then trim

how is it compressed into that shape?

with a press

you make two sides of a mold and put the sheet material in between

then squish them together

the sheet material being the plastic/fiberglass/vinyl or cloth combination you mentioned?

correct

finished parts look like this

interesting, i wouldve thought for fiberglass you would lay it inside the mold, fill it with resin, vacuum suck it and then let it sit till its dry