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3D printing

3D printing

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3D printing

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- You really can't talk about printing anymore without talking about 3D printing. Now, 3D printing's been around for a while, but it's only with this version of the A+ that we actually see 3D printing being brought into the exam. Now, I've played with 3D printing a little bit, but I want to go ahead and just kind of give you a rough overview of how 3D printing works and talk about some of the issues that come into play. So first of all, you got to start with a 3D printer. Now, a 3D printer is basically a heating element that can move back and forth. There's a little table here that moves around, and what it's going to do is kind of almost lay out like, imagine like a toothpaste tube of heated thermal plastic that's a lot thinner than a toothpaste tube, but it's going to squirt out and extrude a shape based on 3D images. Now you can draw almost any 3D image, almost any 3D program. I like to use the popular Blender myself, and I could take that image and then I got to bring it into a…

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