Introduction to 3D Printing

Every tech website and PC magazine seem to have run articles this year on 3D printing… it has now become a hot topic!

3D Printing, or “Additive Manufacturing” to give it its technical name, is a technology that involves the progressive layering of a materials to take the shape of the object being “printed”. On the more expensive 3D printer models you can also print multiple materials in one session. These materials range from liquid, paper, powder, sheets of various other materials, or filaments. This particular electronic science has been around and in use since the 1970’s, but has only recently become affordable for the home hobbyist.

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3D Printing Marketplace

In our last blog post we introduced the trending topic of 3D printing and highlighted two very different companies producing 3D printers for purchase by their respective marketplaces.

Today we are going to introduce you to a growing online 3D Printing Marketplace called Shapeways.com

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