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The mechanical engineers eternal problem
is waiting for parts
and with 3d printing that whole cycle of
design and wait goes from
design and wait six weeks, to design and wait a day
which is basically everyone's dream
Battlebots to me is somewhere between a
hobby and a career. It's not only
what I cut my teeth and engineering on
but it's what I helped many many new builders
come into the sport doing
With the Markforged printers
it's the reliability that honestly gets you every time
if you can't trust your printer
to leave it alone overnight, then you're
not getting anything done any faster
than you would with a conventional
method
It's a super low effort
And I like low effort
Engineers, we know we're finding more and more lazy ways to change the world
Somebody once asked me why we put so much effort into how
the printer looked and how it was built, and my
answer was if we don't care about how
our product looks, why would you believe
that we're gonna care about how your part looks
This is industrial
I mean this is
a different scale
It's insane to be honest with you
when you can think you
can actually print a metal piece
I'll take the carbon pieces, I'm a carbon guy
I'm a racing guy, carbon fiber the whole way
But it's incredible
This is not "looks like", "feels like"
this is "works like", "keeps working like", 
and
"you forgot you 3D printed it because it's still working"
Most of the
work that I do is in the orthopedics and
trauma realm, and trying to make a
difference in you know people's lives
what I'm holding in my hands here is a
external fixator part
Each kit that basically used for a patient cost about
two, three thousand dollars
and this one is a 3D printed version of that, cost five dollars, that does the same thing
and you can throw it away and don't feel guilty
about it
Our customers who are using our printers
they have parts on their desk
that they're showing
how much time and cost they've saved
The Markforged product affords us the ability to take greater risks
Having the ability to
print something that's not as expensive
kind of rekindles your imagination
Originally 3D printing was
for research and developments, and over
time as the technology advanced we took
it from rapid prototyping into
functional prototypes
we can go in entirely different
directions because we will be able to
produce things that you can't produce
other ways
the end of the day every engineer just want to make a perfect design
3D printing lets you get a little closer
or a lot closer
