The Marvel's of 3D printing

Technology has affected the human history more than any field. With the speed at which technology is disrupting today's traditional norms of the world,  one can boldly say that nothing can be unachievable in time to come.

This age has presented us with so many tremendous innovations, we thought internet was wonderful and we’ve graduated to internet of everything but the replication of real life objects from layers just by using the 3D printer stands at the peak of all time marvels in our generation.

3D printing 

Otherwise called addictive manufacturing is a process of making physical objects from a three dimensional digital model just by laying down many successive thin layers of materials. The two steps involved in 3 Dimensional printing include the manipulation of objects in their digital form and the manufacturing of the shapes just by adding materials. The printable models are first created with a Computer Aided Design (CAD) package or via 3D scanner. In preparing data for 3D computer the process is similar to the process of sculpting .

This awesome technology of printing physical objects on 3D from data was first developed by Charles Hall in 1984 and he named the technique as Stereo lithography and his work was patented in the year 1986.

3D printing has found its applications in so many fields recently which include

1. Aerospace: the methods of developing aircraft parts have been made easier by the use of 3D printing, these parts no longer pass through stages such as molding, casting and so on, instead, a 3D printer can just replicate these parts with absolute accuracy. 

2. Art and sculpture: Many artist and sculptors make use of 3D to print out their designed work instead of sculpting it and some of these artists like Joshua Harker and Lionel Henze have made name for themselves using 3D printing technology. Students are even using 3D to replicate the works of their masters

3. Fashion: recently designers exploit the use of 3D to print out designs like bags, hats even some have gone beyond to print stuffs like dresses and caps.

4. Food:  3D printing was used in replicating beef at cellular protein level and in time to come more foods will find a way of coming out from the 3D printer.

5. Jewelries: Jewelries no longer pass the rigorous methods of electroplating, molding and forging anymore; those steps have been overridden by the disruptive meth0d 3D printing and right now you can have your gold chains, earrings and bracelets dropping from a 3D printer.

6. Medicals: the medical line were the very first adopters of 3D printing as this awesome technology has found medical relevance in printing dental parts and materials.

3D printing is blowing out of the traditional method of things, the raging question is; what would we be expecting in the future from 3D? it is worth guessing; the future might see 3D recreating fossils, replicating evidences from crime scenes, reproducing body parts in forensic reproducing construction materials for building.

In as much as it looks like 3D has revolutionized the world, notwithstanding the fact that firearms and illegal products can be reproduced by any criminal who lays hold on a 3D printer still poses a great deal of fear. Nothing still changes the fact that 3D printing is one of the very best of the things this last industrial and technology age can afford.