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so how does a 3d printer make the transition from cutting a plastic replica of your drawing to cutting your part out of lets say brass or aluminum
To print this I made a 2D model on a program called "Autocad Inventor". I then extruded it forward for each part and chose the height to extrude(This program is awful for 3D drawing btw!)