3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It really feels like the wrong technology for the job.

  What 3D printing is great at is having one machine, that can produce a billion different parts.

  i.e. with my one printer, I can print hooks, or replacement parts that no longer exist or custom organizer that fit exactly my stuff and situation.

  It’s fantastic for printing a massive variety of low volume parts / one offs.

  It’s not great at printing those things cheaply, or in modular parts (it can be done but it’s often not because it’s a lot of extra effort for one offs). Which in housing, people want cheap (because it’s the most expensive thing they’ll buy), and they want it to be adaptable and changeable.

  If anything I suspect an actual housing revolution could come from pre-fab housing, made of a highly customizable and modular component system, but no one has cracked all the pieces require dto implement that yet.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    People have cracked modular construction. A lot of construction of modern buildings is pretty cookie cutter, especially if the architect is on board to using pre fabricated elements.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They can do pre-fabricated architecture, but they haven’t cracked it.

      Current prefabricated construction (especially in the context of homes / housing) is still limited in terms of customization and/or requires a huge amount of manual architecture / engineering work, and the consumer facing customization software is still pretty garbage.

      People still often use contractors because they want the level of customization they bring, even when off the shelf options are available.

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