Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] home brew rapid prototype machines

> To sum up, I think home shop rapid protoyping machines are several
> years away, and even if you could build one, what would you do with it?

I saw an article somewhere(design news?) about building up wax prototypes
then lost-wax casting a metal part from them
not exactly the machinist's way of doing things, not enough chips 8^)

the machine they showed in the article didn't look like much more than a
flatbed
plotter with a modified glue dispenser in place of the pen and a table that
could
be lowered as the layers were built up
the hardware seems easy enough but the software would take some work
hmm,
solid model from cad system
routine to slice the model into layers
plot layer,lower table,repeat as needed

Brian