Originally Posted by RudysSC

^ Very cool man. Always love seeing people getting creative with mods.

Originally Posted by Biddles

So I've been thinking about this a lot lately. 3D Printing is growing fast, and it's already quite popular. Home Depot even sells 3D Printing machines. I've youtubed quite a bit of stuff, and there's some really creative people out there putting these to good use. I thought to myself it's only a matter of time before people start replicating body kits. Bumpers, fenders, spoilers, etc...

If you can essentially just download a CAD(a 3D model blueprint for printing) and create it in the matter of a few days in your own house, of course you would, wouldn't you?

3D Printers themselves aren't cheap, nor the material to create with them... at least not yet. The prices are steadily dropping. The cost for materials is very much inflated, but that's going to change soon too.

Here's a small video on printing car parts.
The Future of OEM parts: 3D Printing replacement Car Parts? - YouTube

I'm really only considering body kits. I wonder how heavy the kit would be, and how strong they would be. The future is going to be interesting. Also there's 3D scanning, so you can take something like a Vertex kit, and replicate it yourself.

Eventually they're will be stores/warehouses were you can take things to get them 3D Scanned, and create a CAD file for personal use. Then go home and create it. Right now most personal 3D printers are small, and I've seen one person do a front lip which consisted of 6 parts I believe. So he had to put the front lip together, but when it was done it looked great.

I can imagine in the future instead of buying a body kit, buying a CAD file and going somewhere to get it printed. Or if you have the computer skills you can even edit the body kit, and completely customize it while retaining the perfect fitment the kits offer.

Also make your own badges, etc... Endless ideas here really. So I was just wandering, does anyone here have a 3D printer, have you thought of creating anything for your SC with it?