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geerlingguy
7 months ago
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Thinness, I would presume. Titanium is hard for tooling.
moffkalast
7 months ago
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Yeah 3D printing may be bad for volume production, but CNCing a metal part is an order of magnitude worse, as you can't even batch runs together.
tantalor
7 months ago
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What. Who says you can't batch CNC?
moffkalast
7 months ago
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I was thinking 5 axis, I suppose you could batch simple parts on a 3 axis mill, but that limits you a lot in terms of what you can make?
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