INTRODUCTION

Today, everyone’s talking about it. To hear some manufacturers and journalists talk, you will have a 3D printer in your home in a few months or the next few years. Why wait for the future? For many people, there is already one available at your business, your school, your local library, or through online 3D printing services such as 3D Hubs.

All industries (at least those who produce physical things) use or will soon use 3D printing in their innovation processes: in the early development phase of prototyping as well as for the producing certain specialized or limited-run pieces, for which traditional methods of manufacturing are less adapted today.

At le FabShop, we use 3D printing every day: we set it up and teach our clients and ...

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