I've tried printing a few of my biplane designs on a few friends' home printers, but I haven't had much success. First, the designs are meant to meet the minimums of Shapeways various printers (e.g. a 0.7mm minimum thickness), and that's not a good match for some home printers. Another problem is that home printers usually need a big
mess of support struts to do "overhangs" -- like the lower wing to the floor and the upper wing to the lower, and it gets very messy removing those without cutting out a "real" strut.
It might happen eventually, but it's not as easy as you might think.
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