3D Printing - What Is It?

3D printing is also known as additive manufacturing, additive layer manufacturing or rapid prototyping.

There are various different 3D printing technologies available today, but overall they all follow the same principle:

Produce a three dimensional part by adding material to it in layers. Each layer can be considered a 2D slice of the part. By printing dozens, hundreds or thousands of these layers on top of each other a 3D part is created.

Producing parts in this way has several advantages:

• Efficient material use

• No need for part specific tooling

• Can produce complex geometry not possible with other manufacturing methods

We offer FDM and resin printing technologies to produce plastic parts. See here to understand how these technologies work.)

If you are unsure what process to use, please get in contact and we can advise you on what process is most suitable for you application.