[Arm-netbook] CNC milling of plastic lumber instead of 3D printing?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado at elephly.net> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> this idea is too late for the current batches of laptops,

 it isn't

> but I was
> wondering if it wouldn’t be easier and faster to mill the laptop plastic
> parts out of recycled blocks of plastic (“plastic lumber”) with a CNC
> mill.

 ok, so some of the parts are only 0.7mm thick in places: i'd be
concerned about fibre chunks / variations.

 also it would mean a lot of software work writing a library (backend)
for pyopenscad that outputted formats suitable for CNC machining.

 also it would be quite likely that the actual machining time would be
far, far longer than 3D filament printing.

 i very much appreciate the idea though.

l.