I don't think so. Form Labs, one of the big makers of resin printers call their products "3D Printers". The term 3D Print means more than just FDM printing.
This is now widely used to make "real" parts The fuel injectors in the SpaceX rockets are printed. "Printed" is the most common term and is used for every process. Even the low-cost, under $200 FDM printer can make usable parts. I've mead motor mounts for my CNC mill using PLA plastic on a $170 printer. I thought that later I'd remake then in metal but the plastic rigid enough that I can't measure any deflection under load. That said the plastic does have a press-fit bronze bushing and a press fit thrust bearing. One of the neat things is that we can use the same CAD files for both CNC and 3D Printing. So the part can be designed once and then made on plastic to check fit and then if it work, cut metal. There is a convergence so it makes sense to call one additive and the other subtractive so we can think of it as just two ways to get the same end. On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:01 PM R C <cjv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I figured something like that... > > > On 3/26/20 1:34 PM, Bari wrote: > > > The term 3D printing also used to be a blanket term until it was > > hijacked by the media and marketers to only mean CNC glue gun types of > > 3D printers aka FDM/FFF. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
