The use of common design file standards that allow anyone, to send their designs a commercial manufacturing service.

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Printing in 3D involves sending a design file to a printer that then forms a solid version of that object by slowly building it up in layers of plastic.

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As part of my job, I reported alarming inadequacies: in one case high-grade equipment (ASME III, class 1) was operated in nuclear power reactors with no accepted safety file, regardless of a previous accident and a half-dozen failures in achieving acceptable design results.

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