An extensive range of materials can be used for 3D printing. parts can be made from Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Tool Steel, Inconel and Titanium. 3D printers can print with PLA, PVA (Polyvinyl Alcohol), Nylon, CPE (Copolyester), ABS, Polycarbonate, Polypropylene etc. The process uses a binder cartridge-based material to join successive layers together. Layers are stacked 30 microns apart. the entire printing zone can be dismantled and immersed in ultrasonic baths to dissolve the binder or coalesce powders into stronger materials.

Advancement in 3D printing has presented its considerable possibilities for our life style, products, living or generally any necessities that we need. It has also provided business opportunities through home-shopping as individuals can have personal designs printed on material they choose while shopping online. This year ‘Project Ara’ was introduced bringing us one step closer to custom built phones from scratch. It is now possible that any bit of bits of a cell phone created which build models will be accordingly assembled together to form the required functions and during this procedure you need only paste these parts together until you choose what you want and how it should looks like until your satisfaction is perfectly achieved by your requested model. There are various software in 3D printing nowadays 3D printers can print with a variety of resins and waxes such Rigid Resin, Tough Resin, Durable Resin, High Temperature Resin, Flexible Resin, Castable Resin and Castable Wax Resin etc.

Five Industries Utilizing 3D Printing

• Automotive. The automotive industry has been charging ahead with additive manufacturing, with high-profile companies such as Audi using 3D printers. ...
• Manufacturing. ...
• Robotics. ...
• Education.

 Other more practical applications for 3D printing include innovations in the healthcare, automotive, construction, and manufacturing sectors. 3D printing is utilised to produce end-use parts for field test runs and low-volume production.

With certain additive manufacturing models, 3D printed parts and components can be created as single units (i.e. a prototype), rather than in batches of items on an assembly line.

 3D printing for short-run and custom manufactured products enables the efficient use of time and materials, which is ideal for small and medium businesses that have difficulty making assembly-line style mass production cost investments. For example, end users are now able to experiment with product variations in a way not previously possible with these kinds of techniques.....

While additive manufacturing technology is expanding, there are still some drawbacks to the tool because it can produce inaccurate objects, un-aligned components and parts that might break easily. However, the challenge at these current manufacturing stages is finding a proper balance between improving accuracy with firmware improvements while maintaining acceptable print times.

 Ultimately costs are expected to decrease more quickly than increasing production accuracy though since the market would embrace more accessible (and cheaper) 3D printers if speed continued to improve....

At this point the cost of calibration must be factored into the system to improve the overall accuracy. Calibration usually factors in certain predetermined factors that must be known or measured, like angle compensation and temperature control. A scaling algorithm is used for measurements on a given platform, along with terms that are compensated for to determine if it is within design specifications by providing direct calculations of current output characteristics. Most existing approaches choose to calibrate within a certain range in order from least to most severe in an iterative fashion.. ....

Processes also vary when deciding what form of material will be used as a construction base for produced parts identified using SDM methods...Calculation alloys derived primarily by using Gaussian processes specifically need comprehensive designs and chemical analyses so their thermodynamics can be evaluated then their chemical potentials calculated...