3D Printing
WEEK 7 (TUTORIAL) What is 3D Printing? 3D-Printing is described as Additive Manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing refers to objects built by adding layer-upon-layer of material. The material used can be any type of material, such as plastic, metal or even water-soluble materials such as Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA). Once a CAD sketch is done, the 3D-Printer reads in data from the G-Code file, made using a slicer software and lays down or adds successive layers of liquid, powder, sheet material or other, in a layer-upon-layer fashion to fabricate a 3D object. A slicer is a software that slices our CAD drawing into different layers, and these layers will be made so thin that it can be read/ represented as X, Y, Z coordinates information. This will give an output, G-Code file. Types of 3D Printing technology 1. Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) Also known as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), it is the most widely...