On ABS being too generic, perhaps some will balk, but I have seen it several times. Designed, drafted, purchased, without issue. Military parts even. In practice, what I describe is not an issue. If you send a drawing to a machine shop and the part can be milled from a bar, that is what will...
If I were to have a drawing of, let's say a cube, and the material specified was simply "ABS", and after sending the part to a vendor I recieved an average quality 3D print instead of a solid piece, could the part be said to be out of spec?
In my view, the discontinuities inherent in normal 3D...