08 Mar What is 3D printing used for?
What is 3D Printing?
3D printing is a way to create a physical object directly from a digital file.
Software takes a computer design and slices it into layers.
These layers are instructions for the 3D printer, which builds them one at a time, until what was just data, now becomes substance.
Strong and durable beautiful and smooth. This is what’s amazing about 3D printing, it’s
not one process to create an object, it’s a new way for designers, engineers and all kind of creators to express themselves and solve problems.
3D printing is empowering companies to invent new products with better quality.
It’s giving entertainers and fashion designers unlimited creative freedom. It’s helping researchers and engineers make our lives healthier, in fact, the effects of 3D printing are already around us.
Top 5 Industries for 3D printing
Below are the top 5 industries where 3D Printing application are being used;
- Consumer products (eyewear, footwear, design, furniture)
- Industrial products (manufacturing tools, prototypes, functional end-use parts)
- Dental (Teeth, dentures, fixings)
- Education (Modelling, props)
- Medical industries (Ears, hearts, orthopaedics, prosthetics)
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Consumer Products
Adoption of the 3D Printer and consumer products has entered the mass market with 3D Printing technologies used to create toys, art, jewellery, replicas, and models that can be used to sell consumer products. Given its low cost materials and minimal cost production base with vertically endless possibilities of producing products. It’s easy to see why 3D printing has become an avenue for producing consumer products.
Dental
3D printers have transformed the way dentists can now rapidly produce unique dental profiles for people. The traditional methods were much error prone and with digital dentistry we can achieve high-quality dental parts which are less expensive and can be customized to the individual’s size and profile. Some of the uses that 3d printing has in the dental industry are;
- Dentures
- Retainers
- Crowns
- Aligner molds
- Mouth guards / Teeth protection
- Patient teeth models
- Teaching guides
Education
The introduction of the 3D printer into the classroom and workplaces has helped students and teachers create scale based models of the human anatomy, mechanical models without the need of purchasing expensive tooling and waiting for the production of teaching aids. Small scale 3D printers can turn their creations into three dimensional physical objects. This has dramatically improved the time we come up with an idea and produce a physical prototype in next to no time.
Medical Industry
3D printed prosthetics exemplify 3D printing’s versatility. It is difficult and high-priced to supply prosthetics that match a patient. With 3D printing, measured prosthetics may be modelled and revealed at a drastically reduced price. Children in want of a prosthetic limb previously needed to wait to a certain age to get one to make sure they would not outgrow it. Now, a brand new prosthetic may be 3D created for them every few months and customer fitted.
Castech3D is your choice of company for your 3D printing needs, we produce high quality models for your next project right here in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Castech 3D
PO Box 188 Dry Creek SA 5094
ph: +61 8 8349 7299
fax: +61 8 8349 7275
9 Moss Road Wingfield
South Australia 5013
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