Technically it’s for any printer capable of printing a firearm or the components of a firearm, which is…. every printer. What a bafflingly stupid proposal. If you’re in NY, please call your reps and tell them to oppose this bill.

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Well achtually…To be pedantic,

    A 3D consumer grade printer is not a true 3D tool since it can only move on 2 axis simultaneously. If you watch your printer closely, as it finishes it’s path around the xy plane, there is a tiny halt as it changes active plane from the xy plane to xz plane, lifts the nozzle, then flips the active back to the xy to go along it’s merry way again to lay down the new layer. And no, the hot new scarf joint is still a single plane movement. Sometimes such machines are incorrectly referred to as 2 1/2 axis because they aren’t true 3 axis.

    Source: I’m an old retired toolmaker. Trust me Bro.

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      1 hour ago

      There is vase mode, which lifts the Z axis gradually while printing. This creates one continuous extrusion for the whole print.