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3D Printing Basics

A closer look at extrusion-based 3D printers

May 14, 2012 By Leslie Langnau 2 Comments

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With the arrival of low-priced consumer targeted 3D printers, some users of this technology ask why it needs to cost so much and when will the higher-priced versions go on sale? A look at the inner workings of these printers answers these … [Read more...] about A closer look at extrusion-based 3D printers

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, FDM, Featured, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping

Tips on selecting 3D printers

October 3, 2011 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

This feature is part of a series of features for the 2011 Make Parts Fast Handbook. A 3D printer can be used to analyze form, fit, feel, function, or some combination of these features. But it can do more. Today’s printers also function as … [Read more...] about Tips on selecting 3D printers

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Consumer Products, Featured, Industrial, Make Parts Fast Handbook, Medical, Packaging, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping

Fused Deposition Modeling and Material Advances

October 3, 2011 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology was developed by S. Scott Crump in the late 1980s and was commercialized in 1990. The build material is usually a filament or wire of thermoplastic material but can also be plastic pellets fed from a hopper. … [Read more...] about Fused Deposition Modeling and Material Advances

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Consumer Products, FDM, Featured, Industrial, Make Parts Fast Handbook, Medical, Packaging, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping

Selective Laser Sintering

October 3, 2011 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

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Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology can truly be called an additive manufacturing technology. Long used to build prototype parts early in the design cycle, increasingly it is used in limited-run manufacturing to produce end-use parts. It was … [Read more...] about Selective Laser Sintering

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, Featured, Make Parts Fast Handbook, Materials, Rapid MFG, Rapid Prototyping, SLS Tagged With: sintering, sls

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