Combining techniques
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How should a manufacturing question be worked through?
Answer
In order: how the basic shape was made, what brought it to size, how the parts were joined, and what was done to the surface — with a reason at every stage.
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What counts as a reason for a manufacturing technique?
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A material property, the volume required, a tolerance, a cost at that volume, or the environment the product lives in.
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Why is 3D printing usually a prototyping stage in a mass-produced product?
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At high volume, moulding is far faster and cheaper per part. The printed stage is where the shape was settled before the tooling was cut.
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Work a saucepan through the five categories.
Answer
Deep-drawn body, trimmed and machined base, printed handle prototypes, riveted handle, anodised inside and polished outside.
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