What Do You Know About Types Of 3D Printers And Their Applications?

Whether you are in Montreal or Vancouver, you must have heard of 3D printing, the trend is so much in run that people are now purchasing 3D printers for home, offices, as well as manufacturing facilities. So, what exactly are 3D printers? These printers are known for adding a third dimensions to all your projects allowing them to form solid objects. The ability to print things in 3 dimensions is what makes these different from 2 dimensional printers. Also known as additive manufacturing Canada, 3D printing has created a buzz all through Canada. The reasons it is known as additive manufacturing is because the printer prints out stuff in form of layers till the material is completely finished. There are several types of 3D printing techniques used for creation of solid objects. For instance, you can easily print out a complete dress or a complete device as you need. But it will need a 3D digital model of the object that would want to print. There are a few limitation to what can be done with additive printing.

Moving on to 3D printing technologies, various kind of 3D printers make use of 3D printing technologies. Every single printing technology uses a different process for adding layers of specific material to an object. Basically there are three printing technologies used commonly for present 3D printing processes: SLA, FDM, and SLS. Usually, FDM printing is much slower as compared to SLA or SLS that needs users to use two different kind of printing material. For the SLS 3D printers, the SLS stand for Selective Laser Sintering. It makes use of a very powerful laser for heating and fusing of material being printed three dimensionally. The laser heats up the powder that is then dispersed in form of a thin layer on the printing platform, it then traces a cross section of the object that needs to be printed.

Next, the FDM printers refer to ‘Fused Deposition Modeling’. Under these printers, plastic filaments are produced via a hot extrusion nozzle over a build table. Once the complete layer of material is added to object, the printer lowers down the base and then adds up the next layer. Printers using this kind of technology require two different kind of 3D printing materials - a modeling material for the object and a support material under which the object has been built.