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3D Printing

What is 3D printing?
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model.

3D Printing techniques
Stereo lithography (SLA). Wire/Extrusion Fused deposition Thermoplastics (e.g. Fused deposition modeling (FDM). modeling (FDM) PLA, ABS), HDPE, eutectic metals, materials Selective laser sinteringedible (SLS).

Type

Technologies

Materials

Granular

Selective laser sintering (SLS) Selective laser melting (SLM)

Thermoplastics, metal powders, ceramic powders Titanium alloys, Cobalt Chrome alloys, Stainless Steels, Aluminium

3D Printing techniques
Type
Granular

Technologies
Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS)

Materials
Almost any metal alloy

Electron beam melting (EBM)

Titanium alloys

Selective heat sintering (SHS) [citation

Thermoplastic powder

3D Printing techniques
Type
Laminated

Technologies
Laminated object manufacturing (LOM)

Materials
Paper, metal foil, plastic films

Light polymerised

Stereolithography (SLA) Digital Light Processing (DLP)

photopolymer

photopolymer

Fused deposition modeling (FDM)

A hot thermoplastic is extruded from a temperature-controlled print head to produce fairly robust objects to a high degree of accuracy.

Stereo lithography (SLA)

A perforated platform is positioned below the surface of a liquid photo curable polymer. A UV laser beam traces the first slice on the surface of this liquid, causing a very thin layer of photopolymer to harden. Another slice is then created, and so on.

Selective laser sintering (SLS)

This builds objects by using a laser to selectively fuse together successive layers of a cocktail of powdered wax, ceramic, metal,nylon or one of a range of other materials.

Applications
Product formation (prototyping). Metal casting. Geospatial designs. The use of 3D scanning technologies allows the replication of real objects. Architects need to create mockups of their designs.

Advantages
Increased part complexity. Digital design and manufacturing. Relatively low cost and time. Instant production on a global scale. Waste reduction (Green technology).

Disadvantages

High cost for domestic use. Bad option for common designs. Process is very slow Components do not have enough strength Process is not mass production

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