What is 3D Printing?
3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The creation of a 3D printed object is achieved using additive processes. In an additive process an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the object is created.
How do a 3D Printer Works?
Design is initial step to 3D Printing Process. It's nothing but a AutoCAD Design File. The Auto Cad Designed file needs to converted to STL format. STL (STereoLithography) is a file format native to the stereolithography CAD software created by 3D Systems. STL has several after-the-fact backronyms such as "Standard Triangle Language" and "Standard Tessellation Language".
Upload the STL file to the 3D Printer and Select the material , There are various number of variables available like PLA,ABS,TPU etc.
Printer consists of a Nozzle & a Print Bed. Both Nozzle & Print Bed are heated to a specific temperature to melt the material fed into Printer.
Nozzle drops the material drop by drop in layers and build the object required.
The Process resembles like a Ink Jet Printer that's where it's referred as 3D Printing.
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