3D Printing Technology

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  1. 2. Software that enables users to create models in either 2D or 3D format.
  2. 5. Layer prints in the air between two pillars.
  3. 7. Removable scaffolding structure built to help parts of an object that would otherwise be in midair with no material below (see Overhang).
  4. 11. The support structure built in the interior of a 3D model. To create a fully solid object, the infill density must be at 100%. The lower the infill density, the lighter and more hollow your object will be.
  5. 13. Manufacturing The process of creating a 3D object by fusing one layer on another, rather than removing or carving out material, such as in traditional machining.
  6. 14. The process of taking a 3D model and translating this model into individual layers in
  7. 15. The surface quality of a 3D print, typically defined by the layer height.
  8. 17. Desktop or any other 3D printing software. Your 3D printer uses information generated during slicing to build your 3D printed object.
  9. 20. A technique used to stabilize a 3D printed part.
  10. 21. Prototyping A group of technologies used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or component using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data.
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  1. 1. Height The thickness of each layer of your 3D print. In MakerBot Desktop, you can choose layer heights ranging from 0.1 mm (high resolution) to 0.3 mm (low resolution).
  2. 3. Outside walls that make up the perimeter of your 3D object.
  3. 4. printing A process whereby three-dimensional parts are built layer by layer.
  4. 6. Deposition Modeling The additive manufacturing process in which plastic filament is heated and fed through an extruder to build your object layer by layer
  5. 8. When a layer extends outward, potentially unsupported, over the previous layer.
  6. 9. Language used to instruct your 3D printer to perform operations.
  7. 10. Photopolymers are materials that react to either ultraviolet or visible light energy.
  8. 12. Thermoplastic material used to build your 3D prints.
  9. 16. Stereolithographic file format, commonly used in 3D printing.
  10. 18. The “hot glue gun” of your 3D printer; the extruder uses filament to draw out the layers of your 3D prints. It has a cold end to pull and feed the thermoplastic filament from the spool, and then a hot end that melts and extrudes the thermoplastic. This heated thermoplastic forms your print.
  11. 19. plate Surface on which prints are made.