3D printing has been arround for ages to be honest.

We have quite a few bits of kit here. Water cutter, laser cutter and 2 3D printers, all good stuff for engineering and product design, personally I've never used them, newver really had the inclanation to do so.

There is a cheap version of a 3D printer that you can build yourself called RepRap it costs about £500 so it's not too cheap but its a lot cheaper than a commercial version!

https://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page