This document provides information about 3D printing services from Botshape. It defines 3D printing as an additive manufacturing process that creates physical objects from 3D designs by layering material. The benefits of 3D printing include cost efficiency, minimal waste, faster production cycles, and the ability to easily create complex shapes. Applications are discussed for manufacturing industries, education/research, architecture, healthcare, art, and fashion. The differences between 3D printing and CNC are outlined, and the basic process and common methods of 3D printing like fused filament fabrication and stereolithography are described.

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2. What is 3D Printing?
➢ Additive Manufacturing Process
➢ Create Physical Object from 3D design.
➢ Object is created by adding material layer by layer.

4. Benefits of 3D Printing
➢ Cost Efficient
➢ Minimal Waste
➢ Shortens Product Development Cycle
➢ Shortens time to market
➢ Fast and Customization
➢ Easy to make complex shapes
➢ Dynamic

5. ➢ Manufacturing Industries
- Prototyping
- Mould Making (for low volume production)
- Reduces Product Development Cycle
Applications of 3D Printing
Design OK?Prototype Production
Yes
No

6. ➢ Education & Research Institution
- Educating & motivating students towards new
technologies
- Concept clarification through physical models
- Researchers can build their models as per their
designs.
Applications of 3D Printing

7. ➢ Architects
- Show physical model of the design to clients.
- Better understanding of the end result to clients.
- Customizable as per client’s needs.
Applications of 3D Printing

8.  Doctors
- 3D scan & print patient’s limbs for examination.
- Build prosthetic faster and cheaper.
 Artists
 Fashion Industry
Applications of 3D Printing

9. How 3D Printing is different from CNC?
CNC 3D Printing
Removes Material Adds Material
Lot of wastage No/minimal waste
Expensive Cheap
Difficult to make complex shapes
Complex shapes/structures can be
easily made.

10. How to 3D Print?
3D CAD
Model
(.stl format)
Slicing
Software
(to generate
gcode)
3D Printer
Physical
Object
There are many open-source software & tools for slicing and printing 3D
models.

11. Methods of 3D Printing
 Fused Filament Fabrication
 Stereolithography
 Selective Laser Sintering

12. Fused Filament Fabrication
 Uses plastic or metal filament (wire)
 Filament is extruded to a nozzle
 Nozzle is heated to melt the filament.
 Nozzle moves in horizontal and vertical direction
(controlled by CAM software)
 Material is extruded layer by layer which produces the
desired object as material hardens.

13. Stereolithography
 Uses UV curable photopolymer resin & UV laser
 Object is created by photopolymerization of liquid resin.
 Laser traces the pattern of resin surface.
 Laser cures and solidifies pattern and joins it to the layer
below.

14. Selective Laser Sintering
 Uses powder of plastic, glass, ceramics, metal and high
power laser
 Laser selectively fuses material on the powder bed.
 Bed is lowered after each layer and the process is
repeated until the object is created.

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