tomas
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I think the point is missed here a bit... Milling and printing are both great, and have their unique uses. The good thing about milling is we can mill more bio materials at the moment.
Printing is still limited but in time we will be able to print very useful bio materials. It will be a while though until its affordable I feel.
The wrench is actually easy to print if you understand that space needed for the Worm Screw mecahnism is filled with support materials as the printing is executed then this support material is dissolved away. It seems amazing, and it is very cool.
I don't think anyone suggested the wrench was internally scanned... This would have been CAD designed. Or possibly taken apart and scanned in individual parts then reassembled in CAD.
As far as STL goes...
It seems to have many names
Standard Triangulation Language
STereo Lithography
Standard Tessellation Language
I even get confused as in the literature all 3 are used. I think the best thing to do is ask 3D Systems. They invented it. Can anyone help there, for a definitive answer?
I LOVE THE PIC,.,, 3D PRINT..
