Materials/Appropriate Machines

Different processes are optimized for different materials. A carpenter, a machinist, and a bronze sculptor have different tooling and workflows.

Also, we need to distinguish between 2D, 2D+1, and 3D form factors for the end object.

• Wood: rotary tool, laser, hand tools
• Metal: rotary tool, plasma, electro-chemical etching, non-ferrous metal casting
• PCB: rotary tool, innumerable
• Plastic: reprap, rotary tool, laser,
• Bronze: rotary tool (mabye), lost wax casting
• Epoxy Granite: casting
• Glass: lost wax casting
• Wax/Plastic: RepRap, rotary tool, hand tools, casting.