I’ve got thousands of dollars worth of Lego spanning over 30 years and have never had pieces warp before. I’ve had a few 1x plates break over the years (completely my fault) and have also had issues with the notorious reddish brown bricks crumbling, but that’s it.
I’ve also been 3D printing going on 6 years now and even a top of the line printer will have orders of magnitude worse tolerance than an injection molded Lego brick. FDM is around 500um, resin is around 100um, and Lego is <10um and has been for 50 years. This also ignores quality issues from lack of printer maintenance, support material, and the inherent weakness of printed layers versus injection molding (not to mention the difficulty and expense printing ABS).
Getting different colors and shapes is nice but there are companies that make custom Lego bricks doing that too. The only things I ever even consider 3D printing are wall mounts for my space sets/Star Wars ships and giant minifigs.
I’ve got thousands of dollars worth of Lego spanning over 30 years and have never had pieces warp before. I’ve had a few 1x plates break over the years (completely my fault) and have also had issues with the notorious reddish brown bricks crumbling, but that’s it.
I’ve also been 3D printing going on 6 years now and even a top of the line printer will have orders of magnitude worse tolerance than an injection molded Lego brick. FDM is around 500um, resin is around 100um, and Lego is <10um and has been for 50 years. This also ignores quality issues from lack of printer maintenance, support material, and the inherent weakness of printed layers versus injection molding (not to mention the difficulty and expense printing ABS).
Getting different colors and shapes is nice but there are companies that make custom Lego bricks doing that too. The only things I ever even consider 3D printing are wall mounts for my space sets/Star Wars ships and giant minifigs.