3D Printing
The 3D printing process is used to create an object from a three-dimensional digital model.
3D Printing
The 3D printing process is used to create an object from a three-dimensional digital model. The model of an object to be created is usually designed in a computer program, specially meant for this purpose. The objects are made by joining the materials layer by layer in conformity to the model. Since it adds up to an object, it is also known as additive manufacturing.
The technology began a few decades before under the term ‘rapid prototyping’ since its purpose was to prototype products quickly and cost-effectively. A lot has changed since its early days, and now 3D printing offers amazing outputs and helps in the creation of just about anything imaginable.
3D printing is an ideal manufacturing approach for producing items out of metal, plastic, ceramic as well as other materials. The process allows for rapid production of both prototypes and finished products. Additive manufacturing also creates components with intricate shapes that cannot be made by conventional methods that work the opposite way to it. One such ‘subtractive’ process is machining, which carves out objects from solid blocks leaving some amount of scrap.
Additive manufacturing is not likely to replace traditional methods at an industrial level, but the former can also be used to complement the latter. When used in combination with a tool and die machining, injection molding, and other methods, it enhances the quality of the product and extends the range of what can be made.
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