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🤖3D Printing🖨️ - Coggle Diagram
🤖3D Printing🖨️
Uses
Doctors
Hearing aids
Custom fits
Joint replacements
Astronauts
Print equipment
Instead of waiting
Inventors
Easily build working models
In the future
Make products at home
Instead of mass production
What & How Do They Print?
Most use plastic as stock
Can be wax, even chocolate!
Another kind
Commonly plastic
Heats, sticks together
Printing surface drops
Laser traces the shape
More powder rolled across
Repeat!
Can be metal or ceramic
Slices are squirted
As a thin layer of liquid
Hardens immediately
Printing surface lowers
Repeat
What are 3D Printers?
Same principle
with 2D printers
Extra dimension
Start with 3D image
Sent to the printer
Interpret as slices
Printed on top of each other