2015 Volume 54 Issue 4 Pages 314-319
This paper focuses on the polymer-based 3D printers available now in 3D printing market;such as Selective Laser Sintering, Ink-jet printing, and Fused Deposition Modeling, and presents its current status as well as the characteristics of its various materials. A clear exposition of current status and future prospects of the additive manufacturing using 3D digital data we've been engaged on and its inescapable agenda of the materials to be drawn from its users are given throughout the paper.