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I'm super curious about what it is that you are stamping or pressing with this. Do you have any links to photos of the individual pieces or video of the process. Seems like a great usage of 3d printing. I'm also shocked that PLA cam holdup to this kind of abuse.
I was initially intending on making a parts fan shroud for a printer as a randomly chosen project, but as I mentioned in the main post, it just wasn't super practical and there are a lot of challenges I wasn't prepared for. Like each part in an assembly needs to account for extra shapes and materials, cutting, trimming, brazing etc. I just don't have the software experience to deal with these elements on that end and have no physical experience in this specific area to help me work out a design method in my head. I have experience in many adjacent areas of metal working but not die stamping specifically.
I may revisit this at some point, but this is just one of many very old shelved projects I picked up to share and hopefully inspire others to do something similar or post whatever they are playing with.