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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

The filament makers are really cool. Also, very similar to how metal wire used to be made, with strips of metal drawn through a plate with a circular hole in it.

The closest thing I know of to a solution for that is printing your part, cleaning up the print, then making a casting using lost-material (ie lost wax or in this cast lost pla) casting.

Though six-axis mills and similar cool CNC tools are coming down in price too. And you can do a lot with aluminum and a back yard furnace.