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What is a DLP 3D Printer?

April 13, 2015 By Mike Santora 1 Comment

A DLP 3D printer is used in the additive manufacturing process where objects are created by a 3D printer that uses a digital light projector (DLP) as the light source for curing photo-reactive polymers. There are advantages and disadvantages to a DLP … [Read more...]

What is FFF?

April 6, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

The term Fused Filament Fabrication or FFF was created by members of the Reprap project to avoid litigation over the previously trademarked term Fused Deposition Modeling coined by Stratasys, LTD. Both terms describe a nearly identical additive … [Read more...]

What is FDM?

March 30, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

What is FDM? Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a type of additive manufacturing process used for creating tangible 3-dimensional objects from CAD-designed digital files. Invented by S. Scott Crump in 1989, this trademarked 3D printing method uses … [Read more...]

Laser Melting: What Is It?

March 27, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

Laser melting is an additive manufacturing method that uses a laser to heat a material into a fully melted liquid form. This is essentially the same process used in laser sintering with a few technical differences. Laser sintering uses heat to … [Read more...]

What is Stereolithography?

March 23, 2015 By Mike Santora 1 Comment

Stereolithography (SLA) is a type of additive manufacturing process used for creating tangible 3-dimensional objects from CAD designs or 3D scanned digital files. The process, invented and named by Chuck Hull in 1986, uses photo-reactive (usually … [Read more...]

What is a 3D Printer?

March 16, 2015 By Mike Santora 1 Comment

3D printers are a specific type of industrial machine and are the primary tool used for the additive manufacturing process. 3D printers use data from CAD drawings and 3D scanners to create solid 3-dimensional objects out of some material. How it … [Read more...]

Material Jetting: How Does It Work?

April 23, 2013 By Leslie Langnau 3 Comments

According to the ASTM standard terminology definition, material jetting is a process in which droplets of build material are selectively deposited onto a build bed to develop a three-dimensional object. Many of the 3D printers from Stratasys Ltd do a … [Read more...]