"In aerospace if you launch a vehicle, you can’t go fix it,” James says. “It’s 10,000 miles in the air by the time you realize something’s wrong!" - And I think that I get nervous during deployments...
Most of aerospace lives in a 6mo-1year time between deployements/launches. And then Elon and SpaceX "deploy" every week or two it seems, absolutely blows the mind how they are going about it.
James, Roost designer, here. Happy to chat modulus, moments of inertia, design/analysis tools, best 3D printed materials, MIL-Specs, slip fits, molding shrinkage/theory, etc.
3D printing is an absolute game changer, but I've found to make it work to your best advantage in validating and removing uncertainty from your design, it takes a thought-thru approach. The good thing is prints are relatively cheap, and you do always learn by breaking things :)
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[ 0.92 ms ] story [ 22.0 ms ] thread3D printing is an absolute game changer, but I've found to make it work to your best advantage in validating and removing uncertainty from your design, it takes a thought-thru approach. The good thing is prints are relatively cheap, and you do always learn by breaking things :)