Getting Started with 3D Printing, 2nd Edition

There are organizations around the world that want to encourage an environment of local manufacturing.

One such organization is America Makes (http://www.americamakes.us), a premier national accelerator

for the 3D printing industry that encourages the growth of US-based manufacturing. A private/public initia-

tive formed in 2012, America Makes aims to bring back local jobs and manufacturing to the USA through the

application of Advanced Additive Manufacturing (another name for 3D printing).

But job candidates will have to adapt. Local job seekers, wanting local manufacturing jobs, will have to

acquire new skills that prepare them to work in this ...