Timeline for Which resolution is necessary to print bricks with a 3D printer?
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| Sep 15, 2019 at 19:27 | history | edited | Ambo100♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2014 at 20:22 | comment | added | SQB | @RegDwight Not as simple as that, since we're talking about commercial production vs DIY. Lego (and any other manufacturer of anything) can't afford to check each piece by hand, so their tolerances need to be much smaller than those of someone printing a couple of bricks at home. Even at 100 bricks a day, that would still allow you to check each brick and recycle any bad ones. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 11:19 | comment | added | RegDwight | I don't understand the question. TLG have done tons of research on this, and they are a business so they don't want to be wasting money. So if they settled for the tolerance of 10 micrometers, then a tolerance of 100 micrometers is obviously not enough. Simple as that. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 18:14 | comment | added | gev | Goven that all teh dimensions in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lego_dimensions.svg are in 100 micrometer increments, in theory I'd say 'yes'. In practice, I'd want to try it out on a borrowed printer before sinking large sums of money into it. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | ceving | The tolerance is given in the question. A child must be able to connect the bricks and they must not fall off. Which resolution is needed to achieve this? | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:15 | comment | added | ceving | Most are not. Most are 100 micrometers. Would it be sufficient? | |
| May 15, 2013 at 17:50 | history | answered | gev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
