You should check out non - FDM processes; for instance, Objet machines have a 14micrometer layer thickness, so they're absolutely smooth coming out of the machine. There's so much more out there.
Thank you. We tried. It's really unfortunate that even among people who know about printing, they know about the top two or three processes, generally. There's so much cool stuff happening in this space, the industry really has an image problem.
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