3D printers come into life

Printing goes beyond usual toner-on-paper or ink-on-paper rendering of text and images. The new generation of 3D printers come into being and become popular with specialists in such fields as architecture, automobiles, etc.

Why have 3D printers? Why have a 3D model and make a real object of it? Infact, there are needs for it. The most important need comes from various industries - 3D printers allow to build prototypes in the fastest way possible. Thus, it is possible to see the way a model may look like. As people from air craft project companies say, presentation of a 3D prototype can diminish the final cost of a product, as engineers do not need to create tens of drawings to see the look of a detail.

The UK Thinglab offers building products from drawings:



Here is one of the exisiting 3D printers. Such printers can cost as high as 40 thousand USD.