RE: Who's Going to the AMA Convention?
Well, Hoss, it may get to that level someday, but currently you can't just "print an airplane and go fly" with current state photopolymerization processes. For instance, you can't print servos, you can print the parts and make a servo, but there's still human interaction involved because you can't print gears together on a shaft as they just come out as one part and won't turn, so you have to print the shaft and the gears separately and assemble the servo. Currently, you can print a hollow wing with honeycomb internal structure, but it's still gonna require someone to hinge and install servos and attach to a fuselage and install a Rx ad naseum. Basically just another, currently more expensive, way to make an airplane that would be comparable to the current level of ARF's, and currently photopolymerization is more expensive than traditional injection molding technicques for high numbers of parts.
An interesting process with potential, but not revolutionaly for model airplane hobbists (yet)