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According to the description, the rods are aluminum. Printing rods this long is near impossible and if it was, they definitely wouldn't be rigid enough for this application.

To answer your main question, it depends. There are many materials you can print with, they're strength can differ greatly. Some are very rigid, but somewhat brittle, others are less rigid, but also less brittle.

Then it also depends on the design, the video[0] below is a great video on designing for 3d printing and the considerations needed for strength.

Finally, print settings matter. Temperature can affect layer adhesion. Infill and wall count can affect strength and so can print direction (see video).

3D prints can be pretty strong though. I'm using 3d printed mounts to hang snowboards on my wall, for example. I've printed plenty of other stuff I really couldn't print by hand. And I'm only using FDM printing, with SLA and SLS printing even stronger parts can be printed.

0: https://youtu.be/mziT7KV-fRI



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