What To Expect From 3D Printing

3D printing is a very interesting form of manufacturing technology that is going to without a doubt, change the way that we look at very many aspects to life, and the way that we want to manufacture things. When it comes to bringing a three dimensional picture off the computer screen, and into the physical world, 3D printing is the way to go about doing that. 3D modelers, artists, engineers, or whatever you’d like to call them have been around, and will continue to be around to produce new physical products. What could come about through this technology? What should you expect?

Within your lifetime, the capabilities of producing your own products are going to shoot up. If you’ve heard of the maker movement, you should be very familiar with 3D printing as it is. Being able to produce essentially whatever you want is a very valuable aspect in the manufacturing world. If a young teenager can draw designs on the computer, he or she can then in turn create physical parts out of pretty much whatever material he or she would like.

Another thing to watch for, would be the change in the medical world. People are going to be living quite a bit longer, due to various applications within the medical world that are coming up. Right now, 3D printing is coming into play to help with specialized custom prosthetic pieces. There are other cool applications that are coming about aside from that within the medical world. Some of these applications are coming off as very sci-fi like. These applications include doing very drastic things such as 3D printing part s of the body. There will be people creating organs taken from your own tissue, skin, and possibly even bone. We’re not close enough to be talking about creating complex organs yet such as the brain or eye, but it is very possible for you to see 3D printing jump into organ replication within your life time.

Concept teams are going to be experiencing some cool situations due to 3D printing. In fact, 3D printing is already beginning to stick out in many concept development teams. Video games and computer games such as the Halo series have used 3D printing to create amazing diagrams. The ability to produce very unique pieces of pretty much whatever you want is awesome. Halo used various 3D images to create the physical products of their character models.

This technology known as 3D printing also has the capability to produce various parts that are not included on this list. When it comes down to 3D printing, pretty much anything can be produced. I’ll let you, your friends, and your family will in the blanks with this one. If you have a child soon, by the time he or she is in grade school, he or she will likely be using 3D printing and various computer imaging applications to produce various school projects and presentations, all of which will change the way that you look at traditional manufacturing.