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This is one of the most awfully out of date pages on Wikipedia

Seriously! It is weighed down by examples of various commercial applications, many of which are now well within the capabilities of hobbyists. The current 'state of play'for consumer 3D printing is given as of 2012 - six years after Reprap, it's now 2018 and 3D rpinters are cheaps and sold in volumes 100 or more times as great as in 2012. They are also increasingly amenable to use by general consumers, rather than hobbyists and enthusiasts and MUCH cheaper. I've made a few changes but this article is painfully out of date and hopelessly inadequate at illustrating the range of practical applications for domestic 3D printing. I personally rpint items on more than a weekly basis, and I'm far from unique. Stub Mandrel (talk) 00:39, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Printing but Manufacturing

In the article, the sidebar lists 3d Printing associated with "printing" i.e. producing text for reading, or art (2d Representations). This process, while capable of such things, fits much more closely with manufacturing processes and should be switched to a different grouping of articles. --Jfaurbo (talk) 13:20, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. It's massive sidebar for such a tenuous link. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:33, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Arguably it's both. But I agree there's more commonality with manufacturing. However there's no similar sidebar for manufacturing processes that I can find.GliderMaven (talk) 20:33, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One of those things is not like the other

This page includes several examples of 3d printed structures: sculpture, pottery, a jet engine, cockring with perineum massager and and Audi RSQ.

The inclusion of the cockring is gratuitous, unnecessary and overall distracts from the story.

I've gone ahead and removed it, but it's pending review. Please approve. Thinkpoetry (talk) 14:19, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contribution and posting here to explain it. Unfortunately it goes against one of the policies of Wikipedia, that Wikipedia is not censored. and so removing something as you find it objectionable is not appropriate. Absent another reason I have restored it.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 14:50, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I get that it's good to have examples of what can be done with 3d printing, but does having a picture of a sex toy actually add anything of substance? 2600:8804:1E08:BE00:71A6:3225:4C7A:5682 (talk) 04:34, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]