April 2021
Beginner
261 pages
9h 58m
English
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UNDERSTANDING
FDM PRINTERS
4
CHAPTER
PART II: HARDWARE AND
PRINTING CHOICES
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Consumer 3D printers are described by the material and process they use to create physical objects. There
are two main descriptors of consumer 3D printers: those that use filament, and those that use liquid resin.
The filament-based 3D printers are called “Fused Deposition Modeling” (FDM) machines, and the 3D print-
ers which use light