News - Plastics News: Interest in the long-established, yet seemingly brand-new technology known as additive manufacturing — or is it 3-D printing? — of plastics and metals is booming. Plain and simple.
Anyone who doubts that needed only to stop by the Rapid 2013 Conference & Exposition, held June 10-13 in Pittsburgh, to drink the Kool-Aid. Attendance at the event, organized by the Dearborn, Mich.-based Society of Manufacturing Engineers, nearly doubled this year to more than 2,500, from 1,400 who attended the event last year in Atlanta. It also featured about 100 exhibitors.
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The world of 3-D printing is certainly expanding now, with seemingly everyone acquiring these "marvelous" machines, from Carnegie Mellon University to even my own school. I find the whole process to be rather pointless in some situations because the time and materials needed to make a hard plastic shell of some little object or shape does not seem worth it when you could make it by hand. Given this printer is revolutionizing the modern industry by making the creation of certain objects much easier, until the process can be a bit faster, it does not seem to be practical at this point in my mind.
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