5 3D PRINTING FACTS NO ONE TOLD YOU

5 3D PRINTING FACTS NO ONE TOLD YOU

Technology is rapidly transforming the manufacturing sector all around the world. Surprisingly, a substantial percentage of people are still uninformed of 3D printing and its impact on their daily lives. Did you realise, for example, that practically every hearing aid you encounter is 3D printed? Or that 3D printing is used to prototype the majority of cars that are released to the market? We've got your back.

Here are 5 interesting facts about 3D printing that you may share with your friends the next time you talk about technology:

3D printing can be used to print almost anything.

Yes, you read that correctly, anything. You can 3D print anything from jewellery to car engines to complete houses to even foodstuffs like pizza and pasta. 3D printing is a cuttingedge manufacturing technology that is only limited by man's imagination. That claim is backed up by science, which is based on sound logic. As you may know, 3D printing is a method that takes digital drawings and converts them into tangible items.

3D Printing is older than Internet In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way to distribute and interlink information in the digital environment, ushering in an era of technological advancements and digitization of real-world operations, with the internet serving as its backbone.

But few people realise that Chuck Hull of 3D Systems developed the groundwork for current 3D printers in 1986, years before Berners Lee wrote his initial WWW programme.

3D printing is used to make 90% of all jewellery.

Jewellery, like hearing aids, was one of the first businesses to recognise the value of 3D printing and integrate it into existing business operations. Traditional ways of making jewellery include carving the necessary forms and patterns in wax by hand and then casting the moulds in precious metal. With the introduction of 3D printing, the industry understood the ease with which these wax moulds could be manufactured by 3D printers at a considerably faster rate than human hands could.

3D printing will be used to construct houses in space.

NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX have committed to sending humans to Mars within the next 10 to 40 years, and they want to use 3D printing to build extraterrestrial dwellings. 3D printing robots are considerably better suited to building in space than people, and they are also lot better at it. The winner of phase one of NASA's design competition for building dwellings on Mars was ICE HOUSE, which employed 3D printing and ice to form an igloo-like structure.

3D Printing will change Healthcare

Doctors and healthcare professionals all over the world are already using 3D printing for new applications. 3D anatomical models, which match a patient's actual anatomy, make it easier for surgeons to understand cases and plan surgeries. 3D printed surgical guides take things a step further; they are tools that a doctor can employ to make high-precision cuts and drilling on the patient's body while undergoing surgery.

Metal implants have been successfully produced, and each patient's anatomical shape and size have been perfectly replicated.

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