1. Speed: Digital fabrication offers rapid prototyping at a fast pace compared to traditional methods, reducing lead time and speeding up the product development process.
2. Accuracy: The precision and accuracy of digital fabrication mean that unwanted errors are minimized during the prototyping phase. This ensures the final product becomes more accurate and of high-quality.
3. Customization: Digital fabrication allows customization of parts, specifications, and designs to meet individual requirements, enabling production that caters to specific customer demands.
4. Cost-effectiveness: Digital fabrication minimizes wastage of material, the cost of tools, labor, and errors, making it a cost-effective way to rapidly produce prototypes.
5. Quality Control: Digital fabrication also comes with advanced diagnostic tools that help identify defects and errors early in the prototyping process, improving production quality.
6. Increased Flexibility: The use of digital fabrication in prototyping offers flexibility as it can produce complex geometries that will not have been possible through conventional methods.
7. Reproducibility and Scalability: With digital fabrication, reproducing and scaling up the final product become more manageable, as accurate producing a large quantity of identical products is less complicated.
8. Accessible and User-friendly: Digital fabrication is becoming more accessible to new users due to industry advancements providing cheaper yet good quality 3D printers and software, and also because of its ease of use, support for DIY initiatives, and open-source sharing.
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