3D Printing Technologies

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Across
  1. 2. A laser based technology that sinters fine metal powder to build metal parts
  2. 3. A popular 3D printing technology that extrudes melted thermoplastic filament layer by layer
  3. 5. Metal 3D printing technology that uses an electron beam to melt metal powder
  4. 7. A process that jets tiny droplets of liquid photopolymer and cures them with UV light
  5. 8. Raw material used in SLS and other powder bed fusion technologies
  6. 12. Each thin cross section of material printed during the process
  7. 14. Technology that uses a laser to fuse powdered material into a solid structure
  8. 15. The heated tip of an FDM printer where filament is extruded
  9. 16. Manufacturing method that builds objects layer by layer
Down
  1. 1. The thermoplastic material used by most FDM printers
  2. 4. A preliminary model created to test a product design
  3. 6. A powder based printing technology developed by HP called Multi Jet Fusion
  4. 9. A resin 3D printing process that uses a digital projector to cure each layer
  5. 10. The surface on which a 3D printer creates the object
  6. 11. A printing method that uses a laser to cure liquid resin into solid plastic
  7. 13. Liquid material used in SLA and DLP 3D printing