sometimes all you need is dollar store junk, but specifically modeled to your needs... which effectively makes it not dollar store junk. also, you don't actually need to go to a dollar store, waste half an hour looking for the right thing in their pile of crap, and possibly interact with their less than mentally stable customers.
in my experience even basic pla or petg prints are way stronger than cheap chinesium crap. because you actually use your brain when you model them, unlike chinese crap designers.
got myself a printer several moths ago and that thing is never idle more than a couple days. either I need some custom crap around the house, or my wife needs some decorative thingy, or my daughter wants a toy(and would you look at that, there's a new pink pla spool to try out).
I dont make dollar store junk? I make a lot of weird stuff around the house that are specifically for the niche uses like sorting out items as i want them to be sorted, game inserts, wall decorations, wall organisers etc.
How breakable they are depends on what material you're using and what printing settings you're using. Sure they're not going to be metal or injection moulded plastic strong but for some items they dont need to be
What's the point in making cheap breakable junk that is cheaper to buy?
You seem to be confused as to what 3d printers are for. They're not going to outperform mass-production injection molded for price. If it is something you can readily buy, it's not something that you should be 3d printing.
3d printing is for making things that are not commercially available: hard to find parts, custom parts, prototypes.
What's the point in a home-ink jet printer if the quality is so much less than the quality of National Geographic?
Because sometimes, you want to print something besides a 1:1 copy of something from the newsstand. Likewise, it would be cost-prohibitive (not to mention retarded) to contract someone to spin up a photogravure press so you could make a pristine copy of a utility bill for your filing cabinet.
To make dollar store junk? What's the point in making cheap breakable junk that is cheaper to buy?
Never played Warhammer 40k, eh?
sometimes all you need is dollar store junk, but specifically modeled to your needs... which effectively makes it not dollar store junk. also, you don't actually need to go to a dollar store, waste half an hour looking for the right thing in their pile of crap, and possibly interact with their less than mentally stable customers.
in my experience even basic pla or petg prints are way stronger than cheap chinesium crap. because you actually use your brain when you model them, unlike chinese crap designers.
got myself a printer several moths ago and that thing is never idle more than a couple days. either I need some custom crap around the house, or my wife needs some decorative thingy, or my daughter wants a toy(and would you look at that, there's a new pink pla spool to try out).
I dont make dollar store junk? I make a lot of weird stuff around the house that are specifically for the niche uses like sorting out items as i want them to be sorted, game inserts, wall decorations, wall organisers etc.
How breakable they are depends on what material you're using and what printing settings you're using. Sure they're not going to be metal or injection moulded plastic strong but for some items they dont need to be
You seem to be confused as to what 3d printers are for. They're not going to outperform mass-production injection molded for price. If it is something you can readily buy, it's not something that you should be 3d printing.
3d printing is for making things that are not commercially available: hard to find parts, custom parts, prototypes.
Because sometimes, you want to print something besides a 1:1 copy of something from the newsstand. Likewise, it would be cost-prohibitive (not to mention retarded) to contract someone to spin up a photogravure press so you could make a pristine copy of a utility bill for your filing cabinet.
Manage expectations.