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Offline Enn

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3D print could build a house in 20 hours
« on: October 28, 2012, 03:15:21 PM »
Thought I'd share this link with you all - the future of plumbing?  http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/3d-printer-could-build-house-20-hours-224156687.html

Better start future proofing ourselves now!

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Re: 3D print could build a house in 20 hours
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2012, 11:21:07 PM »
How many jobs would something like that cost? Cant imagine that actually happening. Well I hope it doesn't!
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Re: 3D print could build a house in 20 hours
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2012, 01:09:25 PM »
Don't worry, we'd still get plenty of work. The machine can only  build whats been designed and how man. We could get rich.

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Re: 3D print could build a house in 20 hours
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2012, 03:44:49 PM »
That should have read  - and how many plans have you seen lately that have been correct. We cold get rich doing repairs.

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Re: 3D print could build a house in 20 hours
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2013, 08:21:05 PM »
That's amazing. Hope this can provide affordable homes for middle class and poor people.

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Re: 3D print could build a house in 20 hours
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2013, 08:25:37 PM »
awesome its nice to make such a good print in such a short time


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