found: Work cat.: Additive manufacturing, 2020:p. 2 (Additive manufacturing (AM) is a technology that is rapidly developing and is being integrated into manufacturing and also our day-to-day lives. Its emergence into the commercial world has been labeled by a variety of names, such as three-dimensional (3D) printing, rapid prototyping (RP), layered manufacturing (LM), or solid freeform fabrication (SFF). Conceptually, AM is an approach where 3D designs can be built directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) file without any part-specific tools or dies)
found: Additive manufacturing (AM) website, Jan. 9, 2020:AM basics (Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an appropriate name to describe the technologies that build 3D objects by adding layer-upon-layer of material, whether the material is plastic, metal, concrete or one day.....human tissue. Common to AM technologies is the use of a computer, 3D modeling software (Computer Aided Design or CAD), machine equipment and layering material. Once a CAD sketch is produced, the AM equipment reads in data from the CAD file and lays downs or adds successive layers of liquid, powder, sheet material or other, in a layer-upon-layer fashion to fabricate a 3D object. The term AM encompasses many technologies including subsets like 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping (RP), Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM), layered manufacturing and additive fabrication.)
found: What is additive manufacturing?, via General Electric website, Jan. 9, 2020(Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing; Additive manufacturing uses data computer-aided-design (CAD) software or 3D object scanners to direct hardware to deposit material, layer upon layer, in precise geometric shapes. As its name implies, additive manufacturing adds material to create an object. By contrast, when you create an object by traditional means, it is often necessary to remove material through milling, machining, carving, shaping or other means. Although the terms "3D printing" and "rapid prototyping" are casually used to discuss additive manufacturing, each process is actually a subset of additive manufacturing; different additive manufacturing processes: material extrusion; directed energy deposition; material jetting; binder jetting; sheet lamination; vat photopolymerization; powder bed fusion; additive manufacturing technologies: sintering; direct metal laser sintering (DMLS); direct metal laser melting (DMLM) and electron beam melting (EBM); stereolithography (SLA))
found: Linke, R. Additive manufacturing, explained, via Phys.org website, Dec. 11, 2017, viewed on Jan. 9, 2020(Additive manufacturing is the process of creating an object by building it one layer at a time. It is the opposite of subtractive manufacturing, in which an object is created by cutting away at a solid block of material until the final product is complete. Technically, additive manufacturing can refer to any process where a product is created by building something up, such as molding, but it typically refers to 3-D printing)
found: About additive manufacturing, via Loughborough University Additive Manufacturing Research Group website, Jan. 9, 2020(Additive manufacturing (AM); AM forms objects by building matter up, rather than removing it. Paired with computer-aided design (CAD) software, this technique affords the creation of new types of object with unique material properties) The 7 AM processes (Although media likes to use the term""3D Printing" as a synonym for all Additive Manufacturing processes, there are actually lots of individual processes which vary in their method of layer manufacturing; VAT photopolymerisation; material jetting; binder jetting; material extrusion; powder bed fusion; sheet lamination; directed energy deposition)
