Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)

Creates models by heating and extruding a flament of plastic material

Materials: PLA, ABS (diameter

Stereolitography

Produces models by tracing a beam of UV light over a photosensitive

pool of liquid. Over time the part is lowered into the bath.
Very expensive resin

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)

Similar to stereolithography replacing the UV light with a laser and a

vat of liquid with a powdered base.
From stainless steel to gold, ceramic, rubber and plastic (stainless steel
costs ~ $10/cm3)

Different technologies

Solar Sinter Project

Use the sun rays instead of a laser

Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM)

Machines cut and glue thousands of sheets of material together to

form solids, sometimes with standard A4 paper.
STAPPLES

Filabot
A 3D plastic extrusion system for mostly any type of recyclable plastic, to
make usable 3D printing filament by grinding, melting, extruding the plastic
filament.

What can be printed

Organs (organovo.com)
Food (Choc Creator)
Music instruments (kalimba)
Furniture (lamps)
Clothing and shoes
Optics (from Disney Research)

Velcro
The velcro is printed with 0.3mm ABS with a MK6 extruder on a Makerbot.
What can be printed?

Flexible grids
Done with a Grasshopper defnition that used the grid components to create a
set of flexible triangular, square, and hexagonal grids.

Enclosure
Replacement parts
Data

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3D scanning
Generation
Fractal Scripting From Data Existing shapes
Thingverse.com Parametric design

Design
Blender Rhino Sketchup Open JS cad Slice (Slic3r)
Control the printer (Pronterface)

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Support material
Errors in the 3D model (normals)
Printer setting (speed & temperature)
Shifting
Resolution vs. Time
Layer orientation

Equipment

Reprap (Prusa Mendel)

Opensource Based on arduino Printable parts
Slic3r and Pronterface
Opensource Multiplatform Pre-configured +/