Printing in Three Dimensions

  • In 1986, a physicist Charles Hull has patented the 'Stereolithography' technique which now commonly known as 3D printing.
  • In 2014, Hull was inducted into the national Inventors Hall of Fame. He is also known as the 'Father of 3D Printing'.
  • International Standard Organisation (ISO) has divided Additive manufacturing techniques into 7 main classes named as: Material Extrusion, Vat Polymerization, Powder Bed Fusion, Material Jetting, Binder Jetting, Direct Energy Deposition and Sheet Lamination.
  • The process of Material Extrusion can be thought of as similar to the hot glue gun. Extrusion is a practice of forming something by pushing ....
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