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Not enough into on DIY industry

The 3D printing DIY side of it is huge and barely mentioned in this mile long article. This is totally unrepresentative of reality. There's a huge industry making and selling 3d printers to diy hobbyist people. Where's all that info ?

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]

Perhaps illustrating that it can produce products that are safe for human use? Honestly, though, if that was the intention, it might be more use to have something like a heart valve. — Sasuke Sarutobi (push to talk) 09:01, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DVD copying added to Applications Section

I haven't been able to find a source on DVD copying using a 3D printer. If this is possible, I think it should be added to the Applications section. (PeacePeace (talk) 15:39, 17 July 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Split proposed

It seems that the Health and safety has grown long enough to consider splitting it into a new article, tenatively suggested as Health and safety hazards of 3D printing. Peaceray (talk) 20:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose "3D printing" is only a single coherent topic at the highest level. Anything in more depth than this shows how much variation there is between the different 3D printing processes. Certainly any H&S aspects would do. There's no coherence if we split horizontally like this at the top level, and with a vertical split to fused filament, vs. powder sinter, vs. resin cure would keep each small enough to not need such a further split. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:31, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'm planning to refine and expand this section in the near future, which will make it too long to fit in this article anyway. There are similarities and differences between hazards of different types of 3D printing; inhalation of emissions is a pretty common one, and others like burns or laser exposure are relevant for some but not all types. The best approach is to have the broad-scope hazards article specify what hazards are relevant to what types of 3D printer, and have a short section in the article for each type that points back to the broad article. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 11:23, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lead issue

Would it be possible for us to compile a list of all the things in the lead that aren’t later in the article? That seems to be the big problem right now... The Time to Llama is Now (talk) 23:46, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]