Three-dimensional (3D) printing is opening new opportunities in biomedicine by enabling creative problem solving, faster prototyping of ideas, advances in tissue engineering, and customized patient solutions. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library purchased a Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer to give scientists a chance to try out this technology. To launch the service, the library offe...

3D printing as a manufacturing system o ers new possibilities for designers. A key feature of it is the ability to print fully assembled mechanisms, while maintaining functionality. Due to the process of 3D printing, in order to create a mechanism some tolerance must be left between the parts, in order for them not to stick together. This tolerance changes from printer to printer. As such, a so...

There is promise in the field of Evolutionary Design for systems that evolve not only what to manufacture but also how to manufacture it. EvoFab is a system that uses Genetic Algorithms to evolve Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) which control a modified 3d-printer with the goal of automating some level of invention. ANNs are an obvious choice for use with a system like this as they are canonic...

HYPOTHESIS An inexpensive temporal bone model for use in a temporal bone dissection laboratory setting can be made using a commercially available, consumer-grade 3D printer. BACKGROUND Several models for a simulated temporal bone have been described but use commercial-grade printers and materials to produce these models. The goal of this project was to produce a plastic simulated temporal bon...

The 3D printing process is becoming more and popular these days due to its advantages over traditional processes. A printer a machine that creates objects from plastic, nylon many other materials. printers are now portable very expensive. By analyzing this problem, we trying design printer. Compared with printers, the cost of much lower. Make low-cost price 15% lower than market. generation mai...

Over the past few years, the 3D printing industry has experienced remarkable innovation, making it possible for anyone with access to a computer, design software, and a good idea to become a manufacturer. Recently, relatively inexpensive 3D printers have come on the market and are being purchased by colleges, universities, and libraries. In this primer, we will describe a number of projects tha...

BACKGROUND Three-dimensional (3D) printing is relatively a new technology with clinical applications, which enable us to create rapid accurate prototype of the selected anatomic region, making it possible to plan complex surgery and pre-bend hardware for individual surgical cases. This study aimed to express our experience with the use of medical rapid prototype (MRP) of the maxillofacial regio...

We propose a method for the colorimetric characterization of a printer which can also be applied to any other type of digital image reproduction device. The method is based on a computational geometry approach. It uses a 3D triangulation technique to build a tetrahedral partition of the printer color gamut volume and it generates a surrounding structure enclosing the definition domain. The char...