{"id":12517,"date":"2015-06-15T01:13:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T01:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/hatch-estimates-that-70-80-of-the-jobs-being-done\/"},"modified":"2015-06-15T01:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T01:13:11","slug":"hatch-estimates-that-70-80-of-the-jobs-being-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/hatch-estimates-that-70-80-of-the-jobs-being-done\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hatch estimates that 70-80% of the jobs being done on TechShop&rsquo;s desktop 3-D printers are prototypes, not finished products. &ldquo;You can iterate two or three times in a single day, and that\u2019s incredibly powerful,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Sometimes it\u2019s good enough. Sometimes it\u2019s an interior component so it doesn\u2019t really matter what it looks like.&rdquo; But for finished products, or jobs like custom gears, more accurate machines that can accommodate wood or metal are typically a better fit. Basic 3-D printer plastics, he says, don&rsquo;t have &ldquo;the compression strength, the tension.&rdquo; And for most members, contracting out jobs to industry-quality 3-D printers, who can accommodate a wider range of materials, isn&rsquo;t economical. &ldquo;When you amortize the cost, in many cases you should just mill that baby out,&rdquo; he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3046939\/most-creative-people\/as-makerbot-struggles-desktop-milling-machines-are-on-the-rise\">As MakerBot Struggles, Desktop Milling Machines Are On The Rise | Fast Company | Business + Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Desktop dust mitigation and soundproofing solutions are the next business opportunity. So to will be turnkey metal shaving and sawdust recycling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hatch estimates that 70-80% of the jobs being done on TechShop&rsquo;s desktop 3-D printers are prototypes, not finished products. &ldquo;You can iterate two or three times in a single day, and that\u2019s incredibly powerful,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Sometimes it\u2019s good enough. Sometimes it\u2019s an interior component so it doesn\u2019t really matter what it looks like.&rdquo; But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3fT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}