A 3D printer gives its owner truly the widest scope for translating creative ideas and printing literally anything. However, many people who purchase a 3D printing device do not realize the full potential of the device by printing the simplest crafts, figures, and details. This article will focus on the most famous and useful items that can be printed in a 3D printer.
The most famous objects obtained by three-dimensional printing
The content of the article
- The most famous objects obtained by three-dimensional printing
- Printer house
- What is the principle of a 3D printer?
The list of the most useful and necessary items printed using 3D printing technology includes:
- Wrench. If you urgently need to unscrew a not too tightly tightened nut, and there was no suitable key in the house, then using a three-dimensional printer you can print its analogue with the right size! Of course, this wrench may break about tightly twisted fasteners, however, for several applications for loosening nuts that are not too tight - it’s quite will do.
- Mask for the puppy. There are cases when 3D printing turned out to be applicable to veterinary medicine. For example, scientists from the University of Davis managed to print a special mask for a puppy named Locke, who was badly damaged by the attack of another dog. The printed mask served as a bonding element for some of the facial bones of a sick dog, and after a few months, Lock's bones had healed, and he again began to live a normal dog life.
- Well, with the help of this shelves "with a secret" owners of 3D printers can hide the stash or values from their spouses from possible encroachments of apartment thieves.
Printer house
During the world hype for 3D printing, while others massively printed shower heads and coasters for smartphones, experts from Zhuoda Group have thought about why not print a whole house. No sooner said than done, and a house printed using 3D printing technology was completed in just 3 hours.
Later, the company’s specialists built a whole “printed” villa. It is noteworthy that all the materials used in the process of such construction are environmentally friendly and extract them through the processing of household and industrial waste. This opens up completely new construction technologies for humanity, which, possibly, will be our future.
Reference! There are no printers capable of printing a huge house as a whole; therefore, such designs are printed in blocks, and then assembled into a single building.
The house built in this way is incredibly seismic resistant, not afraid of fire and well heat and sound insulated, despite the recyclables used as the main building material.
What is the principle of a 3D printer?
The principles of 3D printers cannot be called simple, however, a person who is not particularly versed in technology can get some idea about them. The device creates real things based on virtual models, creating the latter in a special integrated program. Subsequently, the model is "cut" into horizontal layers, and converted into a digital code, which will be understandable to the device.
Reference! A program dividing a model into layers is called a slicer. The task of the slicer is to give the device clear instructions on where the material will be applied.
After the object is built in the editor, processed by the slicer and converted to code, the printer starts printing. Printing an object starts layer by layer from its lowest to the highest.
