
Benefits of AM
The term additive manufacturing, or commonly known as 3D printing, takes a 3D model into physical form by depositing or forming material layer-by-layer. This type of manufacturing is relatively new and started to gain traction in the late 1980s with a type of 3D printing called stereolithography (SLA) that cured layers of photopolymers with ultraviolet light. Since then, the number of processing variations and material selection has expanded significantly.