RE: What's in a name........?

From: Anshuman Razdan (razdan@asu.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 18:14:11 EET


Not to digress from this wonderful conversation but it got me thinking....

Is it 2D, 2 1/2D or 3D printing?

The machines ONLY work in 2D layers
The parts could be construed as 2 1/2 D since you fix the Z or build
direction and it never changes
The resulting parts are 3D

Hmmmmm

AR

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