Wednesday 3 July 2013

Additive manufacturing or 3-D Printing!!!


Additive manufacturing is a way creating 3 dimensional solid objects which is been designed with a software. 3D printing is becoming popular everyday and with its practical applications. These printers cost around $600 to $1k and thats a price anyone is will to pack for a cool thing like this. These printers use Thermoplastic or photopolymers. Photopolymers are preferred for better quality, high texture and rigidity. The best news is the new OS are starting to like this new technology and Windows 8.1 is gonna come with a support for the 3D printing!


With 3d printing you could design out a real functional or a car spoiler made with plastic still rigid and in any design and color you wish to have.  3D modeling softwares like blender or k-3D are available free online. I guess its time for us to study some 3D modeling. Ya .. these software are bit hard to use still we could get used to it in 3 weeks or so. These are really interesting to do if you really is gonna print it out. You don’t need a 3D printer of your own as these are a lot of 3D printing services out there and all you got to do is design one and sent the file to them. Shapeways ( http://www.shapeways.com/create )or Sculpteo (http://www.sculpteo.com/en/)   are the tops webs providing this feature and they have around the world delivery.
















These 3D printing could make developments in medical fields too. 3D printing can be done with tissues instead of polymers too. These really helps as all you gotta do is scan your body part and set it to print. These designs can be made flexible, rigid or even elastic with the type of materials used. These could cut down cost of many robort manufacturing companies, automobile industries or build up mock building by civil engineers and the best thing about this is you could customize anything around you the way you like and the whole houses are gonna look different as your ideas. You could even scan things around you to modify and print them, create your own plastic statues, your own branded shoes, shades or even your smartphone …. Just the way you like.






















3D printing is now be done in a very affordable cost and these could cut down your expenses too … like if you want a new spoiler for your car, you could search in google to get the already designed 3D car spoiler files and you could modify them and print it which surely is gonna cost really lower than an original one.
 Looks like many spare part sellers are gonna go out of business right. Time has come to support 3D designers too. Now do some 3D designing sell those files to become a billionaire. ;)


Sounds Easy!!!