additive vs subtractive processes printing motivations complexity access waste constraints failure materials ABS, HIPS, PMMA, PETG, PLA resolution time cost overhangs, supports angle post-processing wall and edge thickness dimensions clearances orientation fills processes stereolithography fused-deposition molding extrusion contour crafting ink-jet binder PolyJet cut sheets selective laser sintering CLIP two photon digital machines RepRap Prusa Ultimaker MakerBot Sindoh Formlabs MTM Precious Plastic materials Proto-pasta MatterHackers NinjaTek service bureaus Shapeways Ponoko Additively Moog file formats STL ASCII solid object_name facet normal n1 n2 n3 outer loop vertex v11 v12 v13 vertex v21 v22 v23 vertex v31 v32 v33 endloop endfacet ... endsolid object_name binary 80 byte ASCII header 32-bit integer number of facets 50 byte facet records 32-bit IEEE floats normal vertices 1,2,3 2 byte attribute right hand rule normal (optional) (lack of) units PLY AMF 3MF OBJ, 3ds,DXFVRML, X3D FREP, BREP adaptively-sampled distance fields volumetric .vol, .tiff, .gif marching cubes fab modules vol_gif gif_stl gif_png G-codes software Fusion 360 SolidWorks Rhino Grasshopper Blender FreeCAD OpenSCAD Antimony VTK CGAL MeshLab netfabb meshmixer Geomagic ReplicatorG Skeinforge Slic3r Cura OctoPrint Sketchfab Thingiverse scanning point cloud, triangulation, watertight, texture tomography Radon transform micro-CT scanned probe confocal serial sections opacity digitizer laser FabScan lidar array illumination time of flight vision photogrammetry ReCap PhotoScan VisualSFM SCANN3D 3DSOM speckle OpenKinect ReconstructMe Skanect Sense iSense structured light laser pico-projector light stages SLAM assignment group assignment: - test the design rules for your 3D printer(s) individual assignment: - design and 3D print an object (small, few cm3, limited by printer time) that could not be made subtractively - 3D scan an object (and optionally print it)
