The Shape of Things to Come; 3D Printing  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8763 (Dec. 2011), page 78-79.
Topik: Product Design; 3-D Printers; Industrywide Conditions; Industrial Equipment; Biomimetics; Additive Manufacturing; Trade Shows
Fulltext: 3D Printing.pdf (46.36KB)

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Euromold, a big manufacturing trade fair held in Frankfurt from November 29th to December 2nd, was--as might be expected--full of machines and robots demonstrating their ability to cut, bend, weld and bash all sorts of objects into shape. But in one of the halls the scene was very different. It was here that 300 or so exhibitors working in three-dimensional printing (or "additive manufacturing" as they prefer to call it) were gathered. Some of their 3D printers were the size of cars; others were desktop models. All worked, though, by building products up layer by layer from powered metal, droplets of plastic or whatever was the appropriate material. The range of those products was as unusual as the way they were made. Additive manufacturing, then, is changing not only how things are made, but what is made. In particular, many of the objects on display had an organic look to them. That is no accident. In some cases, designers have deliberately copied nature. In others, they have started from first principles, drawn conclusions (usually aided by clever software), and found that nature got there first. And in some, the decisions have been aesthetic--presumably reflecting an evolved preference in the human psyche for objects that look natural.

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