DEVELOP3D - Technology for the product lifecycle

The Z Corp machines remove the initial large quantity of unused powder under negative pressure.

3D Printing has been through something of a boom of late, to say the least; it seems that you can’t even pick up a copy of the Economist without finding yourself presented with an image of the future.

That is a future, as the hyperbole seems to indicate, where we’ll be downloading 3D geometry from the web (probably for free, IP rights be damned) and printing out the products we need. Or at least, uploading them to a service provider in the medium time-frame.

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