What Is Slicer Software and How Does it Enable 3D Printing? 3D printing, a type of additive manufacturing, works by creating objects layer-by-layer based on a digital computer-aided design (CAD) model ...
Polymer 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is achieved by extruding heated plastic through a nozzle. The material extruded in this image is glass fiber reinforced PETG, building a tooling jig for ...
Most 3D printing projects start with a 3D model of some kind. Slicing programs transform the model into gcode. The gcode file contains the commands that actually drive your printer. There are ...