Always wondered why some say '3D printing' and others 'Additive Manufacturing'?
Are you working in the industry and are you tired of explaining?
Are you a novice and you want to know the difference?
Here's the explanation, short and simple.
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4. CONDITION ASTM classification TECHNOLOGIES LAY-OUT LAYER FORMING PHASE CHANGE
LIQUID
Vat
photopolymerisation
Stereolithography
Liquid resin in a vat,
irradiated by UV light through a laser
Liquid layer deposition Photo-polymerisation
Digital light processing
Liquid resin in a vat,
irradiated by UV light through a projector
Liquid layer deposition Photo-polymerisation
Material jetting Polyjet
Droplets of photopolymer,
irradiated by uv light or cooling
Moving printhead
Photo-polymerisation/
cooling
Material extrusion Fused deposition moddeling Material melted in a nozzle
Continious extrusion and
deposition
Solidification by cooling
POWDER
Binder jetting 3D PRINTING / Z-printing Binder jetted on powder bed
Layer of powder
Drop on demand binder
deposition
No phase change of powder,
solidification by binder
Directed energy
deposition
Lasercladding Powder injection through nozzle in laser spot Continious powder injection
Powder melting by laser
Solidify by cooling
Powder bed fusion
Direct metal laser sintering
Powderbed in chamber of inert gas,
sintered through laser
Layer of powder
Powder sintering and
re-solidification by cooling
Selective laser melting Powderbed melted through laser Layer of powder
Powder melting
solidify by cooling
Electron beam melting
Powderbed in chamber of inert gas,
melted through electron beam
Layer of powder
Powder melting by electron
beam
solidify by cooling
Selective laser sintering Powderbed sintered through laser Layer of powder
Powder melting by laser
solidify by cooling
Selective heat sintering Powderbed sintered by thermal printhead (IR) Layer of powder
Powder melting by heat
solidify by cooling
VAST
Sheet lamination Laminated object manufacturing Feeding, cutting and binding of sheets Deposition of sheet material
Binding by phase change of
solder, glue or others
ASTM released in 2009 the first international AM standard.
Additive Manufacturing is set as global term,
3D Printing is one of the listed technologies.
7. Popular media frequent the term 3DPrinting
as if it was magical and can do anything.
Most cases it is used for 1 technology: low cost FDM printing.
New Scientist
Huffington Post
National Geographic
Geek.com