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Why is Additive Manufacturing Called Additive?
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3D Printers can fabricate items by using photo-curable plastic polymers, melted plastic filaments, metal powders, concrete, and many other types of materials - including biological cells that can form amazingly complex structures to replace, repair, and even augment our own bodies. All of it was science fiction until a few years ago.
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Additive Manufacturing works by bringing the design of an object - its shape - into a computer model and then dividing that model into separate layers that are stacked to form the final object.
The process reimagines a 3D object as a series of stackable layers that forms the finished object. Whether this object is a teacup or a house, the process starts with the base layer and builds up additional layers until the full object is complete.
3D printers build up layers of material in a few ways: by fusing liquid polymers with a laser, building small granular particles with a laser or a liquid binding material, or extruding melted materials in the same way that toothpaste is squeezed from a tube onto a toothbrush.
