what is 3d printing?
everyone must have heard about metal cutting operations like turning,milling etc required to remove material from workpiece in order to get required shape and size called substractive manufacturing.
But, now a days people are becoming more greedy, they want product with unique design, must look cool and greater complexity. that is not possible by substractive manufacturing to over come this limitation of additive manufacturing came into picture.
what is 3d printing?
it is the process in with part is manufactured by adding layer one by one as per the design provided by modeled design. it involves creation of product design by using CAD packages like CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, etc.these software are used to create very complex part design.
That generated 3d model is converted to .stl file in order to modify or edit if there is any overlaping or noisy shell present.(.stl file is the standard triangular language used to represent only surface condition but it do not give information about texture, color etc.) in this software used are materialized magics.
that file from magic is then send to any slicing software like Ultimaker Cura, FlashForge etc. in this step model is sliced into layers as per layer size and other operation like fill density, speed etc parameter are set to print the part.
Output of the slicing software is in G-code form which is then send to 3d printing machines to print the part.
There are basically seven types of additive manufacturing processes:
1.Vat photopolymerization process
2. material jetting
3.Binder jetting
4.powder bed fusion process
5.sheet lamination
6.direct energy deposition
7.fuse deposition modeling
By using any of the above process we can print the modeled part.
This is how printing of the part done, use can print any product as per your need.
In todays world 3d printing is trending because some iits working on 3d printing technology to 3d print houses and various part needed for industrial puposes.
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