Printing is actually stupid easy now. I was waiting to get into it until the costs came down and ease of use was acceptable and we just entered that era. I haven’t printed any guns because it’s illegal under state law and therefore an unnecessary risk, but I believe that I have the right to do so since privately made firearms are a well documented practice in history and tradition. Hopefully the courts agree some day, but in the meantime I’m saving a ton of money on all sorts of other tools and accessories.
You really can just drop in a file and get good results, but it does require a bit of experimenting in order to get the filament, temperatures, and supports dialed in. I figured it out with the help of online videos and there are huge repositories of designs so knowledge of cad is no barrier at first.
The reason I question why Luigi would bother to design his own gun is because there are so many designs out there where the r&d has already been done and the shopping list included in the notes. It makes no sense to reinvent the wheel, and requires a lot more knowledge than “basic cad” as he stated.
I’m getting the feeling that the war on printing is here, not only because it cuts into corporate profits but also tax revenues. I can make a full set of magpul furniture and tweak it any way I want for a pocketful of change without contributing anything to Matson, Da Rail, or HPD’s robot dog fund and I’m pretty sure our state government is threatened by that concept.