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by eltoozero 2726 days ago
I can’t believe that nobody has mentioned the Prusa FDM 3D printers are, and have always been designed in SCAD[0].

This alone has been instrumental in allowing community improvements, it’s the last “true” reprap, they run a farm of 300+ machines and iterate parts somewhat frequently.

Pretty amazing that there is one molded part on the entire machine, the spool holder.[2]

There was also some “archeology”[1] on the traditional CAD dead-ends from a specific extruder design that I found facintating.

[0]: https://www.prusa3d.com/prusa-i3-printable-parts/

[1]: https://reprap.org/wiki/Genealogy_/_Archeology_of_the_Greg's...

[2]: https://twitter.com/la3dpr/status/1072393398722670594?s=21