3d Printing Research Paper
Assignment #3
Adopt or develop a methodology for TA and design a plan to conduct a TA of the selected technology
This assessment will look at 3D printing and its impacts. 3D printing has many capabilities but comes with, like many technologies, pros and cons. It allows one to create a wide variety of products from a number of materials. It can be used for product formation, allowing designers and engineers to test out ideas for dimensional products cheaply before committing to the process. 3D printing also allows doctors to create replicas of the human parts they are about to operate on, for training purposes, as well as make bone grafts for patients who have suffered injuries. It is thought that in the future human organs can be created, …show more content…
The problems that come with the many capabilities that 3D printing offer are many; the changes to the manufacturing process, copyright issues, and printing of illegal items. These are problems that are both a local and global issue. Researching these impacts will take some time to fully understand.
Rapid prototyping is the process of making a 3D solid object or almost any shape from a digital CAD design. It involves the use standard inkjet printing to create parts layer-by-layer by depositing a liquid binder onto thin layers of powder. Print heads are moved over a bed of powder which it then prints the cross-sectional data sent from the software. This process is then repeated layer-by-layer until the item is completed. Printers can print full working models of items, including things like a fully functional clock with …show more content…
Hobbyist 3D printing has created copyright issues, from people a man selling iPod/iPhone docks created to look like an item from the TV show The Game of Thrones, the creation of star wars characters, or other game, movie or TV show memorabilia. Controlling these copyright issues will be far more difficult than that of the music and film industries. As long as someone is proficient at CAD, knows someone who is, and has access to a 3D printer then these items can be replicated. Another issue is that of safety from the creation of weapons, there was a guy that created and 3D-printed a working gun. There had been websites allowing users to have designs of their guns, although have since taken them down due to their knowledge of their designs having been used for 3D
Adopt or develop a methodology for TA and design a plan to conduct a TA of the selected technology
This assessment will look at 3D printing and its impacts. 3D printing has many capabilities but comes with, like many technologies, pros and cons. It allows one to create a wide variety of products from a number of materials. It can be used for product formation, allowing designers and engineers to test out ideas for dimensional products cheaply before committing to the process. 3D printing also allows doctors to create replicas of the human parts they are about to operate on, for training purposes, as well as make bone grafts for patients who have suffered injuries. It is thought that in the future human organs can be created, …show more content…
The problems that come with the many capabilities that 3D printing offer are many; the changes to the manufacturing process, copyright issues, and printing of illegal items. These are problems that are both a local and global issue. Researching these impacts will take some time to fully understand.
Rapid prototyping is the process of making a 3D solid object or almost any shape from a digital CAD design. It involves the use standard inkjet printing to create parts layer-by-layer by depositing a liquid binder onto thin layers of powder. Print heads are moved over a bed of powder which it then prints the cross-sectional data sent from the software. This process is then repeated layer-by-layer until the item is completed. Printers can print full working models of items, including things like a fully functional clock with …show more content…
Hobbyist 3D printing has created copyright issues, from people a man selling iPod/iPhone docks created to look like an item from the TV show The Game of Thrones, the creation of star wars characters, or other game, movie or TV show memorabilia. Controlling these copyright issues will be far more difficult than that of the music and film industries. As long as someone is proficient at CAD, knows someone who is, and has access to a 3D printer then these items can be replicated. Another issue is that of safety from the creation of weapons, there was a guy that created and 3D-printed a working gun. There had been websites allowing users to have designs of their guns, although have since taken them down due to their knowledge of their designs having been used for 3D