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Tom Baxter answered 5 years ago
3D printing, or Additive Manufacturing, is the process of building an object layer by layer. The printerwill deposit material in very thin layers to eventually create an object. To do this a 3D object in the form of an STL file is loaded into "slicing" software. The software takes thes objects and breaks it down into many thin layers and saves it to a GCODE file. GCODE is the language that tells the 3D printer the X, Y, & Z directions to move the print head while extruding or depositing material. There is much more invovled in what GCODE actually does. There is also many types of 3D printing technology, (FDM, DLP, SLA, etc.), but this is a basic explanation.
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Staff replied 5 years ago
3D Printing technologies build an object layer by layer to create a complex shape. In order to build this object we need a 3D file that contains accurate information about the geometry of the part. Then the information in this 3D file is sent to the 3D-printer that will build up the material matching the 3D file.
replied 4 years ago
this is a great question 🙂 I got into 3d printing 3 weeks ago and been subscribed to many youtube channels and been taking some online courses with some of my girlfriends. If you want more info I would love to help you. Maybe this video can help you daniel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J-VsbNaP4