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Originally Posted by BrianArneson
That must have cost a ton to print. You might as well have bought a new Jaguar
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Once you buy the machine (admittedly pretty expensive), the cost of printed parts is almost nothing. With a cosmetic print like this one, we use 10% fill. The interior is mostly air. I suppose there is a cost to the electricity used to print the parts, but that's trivial, too.
We'll be replacing at least 10 Jaguars with replicas. Though the current price is $60, they were about $100 when we bought them. That's a pretty good justification for buying a $2000 3D printer, right there. We will be replacing other things, like CRIOs, PD board, sidecars, etc.