Posted on 01/08/2014 9:51:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
3D Printing Forum Launches a Community Dedicated Exclusively to 3D Printing
http://www.prweb.com/releases/3dprintingforum/com/prweb11467473.htm
Why stop there? With China’s population growth, they might need to print up a few cities.
The thing prints the outer walls out of concrete, standing up in place, and then fills them in. I think humans would have to step in and put the rebar in before it is filled, unless they make a robot to do that job too.
The ultimate prepper could gather a lifetime of supplies and then print their bunker around themselves, with no entrance :)
Regular doors and windows. Humans come along and install them later. They’re just talking about printing the “shell” of the house, not all the fittings.
The conditions will dictate whether or not this machine or whether more conventional methods will be needed. I don’t know why this thing couldn’t come up with some molds for segments of houses, and only the molds and the materials to be poured into the molds need be taken to the building site. If level ground or conventional foundations are feasible, then that might be all we need. Maybe the machine could come up with custom molds for foundations to be set in uneven ground.
There’s no reason all the architecture has to be done from scratch at the site; it could draw upon design libraries. Kind of the Ikea of houses.
The machine could, however, do all the engineering calculations required to confirm that yes, the building will remain sound in the conditions it is expected to meet.
Yeah right, a giant concrete squirting robot is going build a house in less than 24 hours. Maybe it is possible with some other kind of magical material, perhaps the same stuff that keeps Pelosi’s face from slumping off.
Yea, but the criminals will use them to build giant cannons to cause huge school massacres, blow up bank vaults, etc....time to legislate 3-D printer control laws and background checks.
Someone needs to modify this to make a border wall.
On the cusp of the Star Trek replicator.....
So who puts in the electrical, plumbing, heat/AC, doors, windows, etc? I am imagining electric wires strung on hooks across all the walls. And concrete floors.... ouch! What will anchor it to the ground? Will it begin to slide when the ground around it turns to mud in a storm? Will the roof be concrete too?
That 24-hour-house will still need months of work to be livable.
Ping!
Yep, won’t be long and the construction trades will be a thing of the past thanks to technology. More people unemployed. But then, it will take one or two people to operate the new equipment.
Does it install plumbing and wiring
Someone needs to modify this to make a border wall.
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Best idea yet!
Someone needs to modify this to make a border wall.
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Best idea yet!
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic. China already has entire cities that they built over the last couple of decades which are empty and rotting.
I see no forms.
I see no provision for maintaining the structural integrity during the 28 days required for the portland cement concrete to cure to full strength.
In short, the material selected is not suitable for the purpose intended
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