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3D Printing - Coggle Diagram
3D Printing
Uses
Inventors
easily build working models
Doctors
joint replacements
hearing aids
custom fits
Astronauts
print equipment
instead of waiting
In the future
make products at home
instead of mass production
What?
same principle
with 2D printers
extra dimension
start with 3D image
sent to printer
interpreted as slices
printed on top of eachother
How?
slices are squirted
as a thin layer of liquid
hardens immeidately
prinitng surface lowers
repeat
most use plastic as stock
can be wax, even chocolate
another kind
powdered mateiral
commonly plastic
laser traces the shape
heats, sticks together
printing surface drops
more powder rolled across
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can be metal or ceramic