3D PRINTING

(ADDITIVE
MANUFACTURING) Power pointed
by:
Ardalan Amiri
Presenting by:
Ardalan Amiri
Hesam Omidi
and
Mohammad
Darini
 History
Manufacturers have
quietly used 3D
printing technology
also known as
additive
manufacturing to
build models and
prototypes of
products over the
Charles Hull invented the first
past 20 years. commercial 3D printer
How it works
3D
CAD Scanner
Computer

STL format file

3D
printer

Laying down successive layers of liquid,

powder, paper or sheet material to build the
model from a series of cross sections
Practicality
Several different 3D printing processes
have been invented since the late 1970s
Almost all of them are efficient only for small
quantities and relatively small dimensions
They can take several hours to several
mounts to build a model
Some of them can use multiple materials
and colors simultaneously and/or
sequentially
3D printer markets

Many companies offer 3D printing services or sell

relatively cheap 3D printers that can cost just
hundreds rather than thousands of dollars
nowadays.
An example of non-industrial use
3D-Printed Reefs
Could Rehabilitate
Persian Gulf
Ecosystem
Voxel (Volume + Pixel)

The particles are

around 50 to 100
m (510 to 250 DPI
(dots per inch)) in
diameter
Additive processes types
Granular DMLS
Method
Precise and flexible
Still under huge study and development
Invested and used by universities
Using almost any available 3D printing
material
Using Particle locating system
Covers many sub-branches of 3D
printing
Mechanical Friendly
The most efficient 3D printing method
for Mechanical Engineers.
Directly build metal parts (expensive)
Great choice to build moulds for further
manufactures
Mechanism

Fused
metal
Limits
Imperfections in plastic materials
Lack of accuracy in Z direction
Needs powerful computer processors
In demand for finishing process
There are few numbers of famous
companies ( patent for Germany and
USA )
Stereo lithography (SLA)

excellent for
composite materials
fast and accurate
Top-down process
The resin used in
SLA is particularly
sensitive to
ultraviolet light, so it
hardens once the
UV laser hits it.
Novel mechanism
 Once the process is
finished, the newly
created object is
soaked in a solvent
What happens next that helps cure the
resin, the
supporting structure
is removed, and
whatever excess
resin is scraped off.
Some machines
require the printed
item to be baked in
an ultraviolet oven
to guarantee its
solid state
Stereo-Lithography samples
can produce parts with a
maximum size of approximately
505060cm (20"20"24")
Other side of facts
The resin alone stands at around $100
to $200 per liter
the cost of stereolithography machines
ranges from $100,000 to more than
$500,000
The less resin the poorer Voxel
The commercial types suffer from lack of
reliability
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