Funny that this comes up today. Ive been working in CAD for many years now, and looking to get into prototyping. I just scored a 3D printer and am going to start with guitar knobs.
That being said, everyone at work... and in my professional feild, view me as "the guy who runs all of the machines", but in fact, my guys run them, I program them.
Everyone thinks that running the machine is hard, but it's the programming that's a mother fucker
Yup.
I'm sure most have heard of the PLEK machine.
It scans your neck, fretboard, frets, amount of relief.
And gives you a readout of it all.
It tells you where frets are low, high, everything.
And it can level the frets, cut the nut, makes the bass/guitar incredibly playable.
However, it's up to the operator how to proceed from the initial readout.
You don't just put in a guitar with crummy playability, push a button, and out pops a fantastic playing instrument.
The machine/programming is only as good as the person operating it.