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Originally Posted by pruettfan
I'm sure 3D printed wheels are some time away, its my understanding that the machine manufactures are a few years away from making a machine large enough to do something like this in one piece or even two. When it does happen though it should open a world of possibilities. I'm sure many manufactures will jump on the technology when it is available but I will only trust a company like HRE to responsibly and reliably implement this technology. Happy to see them experiment and learn about this tech early on.
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that doesnt make any sense.
When 3d printing titanium becomes commoditized you could download a cad file and send it to the stop and they would make it for you. I'd imagine prices would come down enough that they would be quite a bit cheaper than the steel forged ones coming from HRE.