As prices for 3D printers plummet, many are predicting:-
There are 3D printers available for around $1,000. Office Depot has started stocking 3D Systems Cube and CubeX printers for the relatively inexpensive prices of $1,299 and $2,499. A successful Kickstarter campaign promises to bring The Buccaneer—a “3D printer everyone can use”—into homes in the next few years.
So, will 3D printing change the way you run your business? Will you be able to quickly and easily print prototype designs in the comfort of your own office with little to no cost fairly soon? Not so fast, pirate.
Autodesk CEO Carl Bass recently said that while he was excited by the way that individuals were adopting 3D printing technology and the way that industry was pushing the state of the art, he cautioned that the technology still has a long way to grow. “The weakness right now in 3D printing, particularly for home 3D printing is, number one, the materials,” Bass said.
The 3D printers that are aimed at small architecture studios and firms that want to print their own design iterations are still complex pieces of machinery that require expensive materials. To “print” a model in 3D, a CAD file is imported into your 3D printer’s included translation software and “sliced” into a stereolithography (.STL) file that breaks the model down into thin cross sections and feeds them into the 3D printer. The printer creates the model one layer at a time by spreading a layer of the gypsum-based powder and inkjet printing binder into the cross sections of the model.
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