Global Additive Fabrication Market 2009-2013
Additive fabrication is also known as solid freeform fabrication, layered manufacturing, rapid manufacturing, rapid prototyping, or 3D printing. In this type of fabrication, a solid model is manufactured directly from a digital 3D model, which is created through the Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. This 3D CAD model is converted into many thin layers, and the manufacturing equipment uses this geometric data to build each layer sequentially, until the object is completed.
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