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This 12-page activity is provided by Edmonds Community College and is intended to build 3-D visualization skills. Students use a manual technique (manipulation of a solid object on a virtual platform) to build these skills. This activity includes a Table of Contents and the following sections:...

These presentation slides are provided by Edmonds Community College and are intended to use with the 3-D Spatial Visualization Skill Building for Additive Manufacturing activity. The slides include a blank KWLD Chart; a 2-D Cartesian Coordinate System image; a 3-D X, Y, Z-Axis diagram; a...

This 24-page document highlights a learning module that explores the processes for re-purposing failed 3D print projects, virgin print materials, and unused 3D filament spools back into usable 3D printing filaments. After the module, learners will be able to extrude acceptable 3D printing filaments...

This 18-page paper, written by Michael Weinberg, discusses 3D printing and copyright. Weinberg expects the use of 3D printing to grow in the future and with this growth a number of questions may be raised. This paper addresses the possible question of "how to treat 3D scans in the context of...

This 12-page document highlights a learning module that explores 3D spatial visualization skills in additive manufacturing. Students are introduced to the Orthogonal Cartesian Coordinate System, the types of positive rotations that are possible, and the orientation of an object on the build platform...

This document highlights a learning module that explores additive manufactured polymers. Through the module, students create polymer materials, make a test matrix, and conduct an experiment to explore bending stress. Lab software and equipment requirements, instructor notes, the experiment's...

This Additive Manufacturing Basics site from AMazing Additive Manufacturing gives an overview of additive manufacturing (AM) history and technologies. The site introduces common AM technologies such as the use of a computer, 3D modeling software (Computer Aided Design or CAD), machine equipment and...

This 17-page module, from Tennessee Technological University, "introduces students to the additive (AM) methods used in fabricating magnetic materials." This module briefly covers "magnetic properties, types of magnetic materials, AM technologies used to produced these magnets, and application...

This 39-page report is written by Eric Wooldridge, who demonstrates that adopting desktop additive manufacturing (AM) processes can be low cost and improve efficiency. In this study, Wooldridge evaluates the cost-savings potential of using 3D printers to produce tools, equipment, and spare parts...

This video from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) is part of the Innovative Technology Speaker Series and features four presenters that explore additive manufacturing. David Ramirez from RE3DTECH provides an introduction to additive manufacturing and explores digital 3D models, the 3D...