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By Alan
You want to build something? The steps used to be: Think, sketch, draw, draft, design, prototype, engineer, fabricate, cut, form, machine, assemble, build, mass produce.
Some of those steps required specialized training, or years of experience to do. In the last few decades, the world changed because you could get fabrication from Computer Numerical Controlled machine tools to grind away material from a giant block of metal, plastic or wood.
But, in the last few years, this has dramatically changed. Imagine being able to think of a shape or object, draw it in the computer, and have a real model of it sitting in your hand an hour later. The part isn't carved away from a big block, instead it is created layer by layer from scratch, in plastic, metal,