The most popular items created using a 3D printer

A 3D printer gives its owner truly the widest scope for realizing creative ideas and printing literally anything. However, many, having purchased a 3D printing device, do not realize the full potential of the device by printing simple crafts, figures and parts. This article will talk about the most famous and useful items that can be printed with a 3D printer.

The Most Famous 3D Printed Objects

The list of the most useful and necessary items printed using 3D printing technology includes:

1. Wrench. If you urgently need to unscrew a nut that is not too tightly tightened, but there is no suitable key in the house, then using a three-dimensional printer you can print its analogue with the required dimensions! This wrench, of course, can break on tightly tightened fasteners, however, for several applications for unscrewing nuts that are not too tight, it will do just fine.
2. Puppy mask. There are cases where 3D printing has been applied to veterinary medicine. For example, scientists from the University of Davis managed to print a special mask for a puppy named Loka, who was badly injured by another dog.The printed mask acted as a holding element for some of the sick dog's facial bones, and within a few months, Locke's bones had healed and he was living a normal canine life again.
3. Well, with the help of this one shelves with a secret owners of 3D printers can hide a stash or valuables from their spouses from possible attacks by burglars.

House printed on a printer

During the global 3D printing craze, while others were mass-printing shower heads and smartphone stands, specialists from the Zhuoda Group thought about why not print an entire house. No sooner said than done, and the house printed using 3D printing technology was made in just 3 hours.

Later, the company’s specialists built an entire “printed” villa. It is noteworthy that all materials used in the process of such construction are environmentally friendly and are obtained through the processing of household and industrial waste. This opens up completely new construction technologies for humanity, which may be our future.

Reference! Printers capable of printing a huge house as a whole do not yet exist, so such structures are printed in blocks and then assembled into a single building.

A house built in this way is incredibly earthquake-resistant, not afraid of fire, and well insulated in heat and sound, despite the recycled materials used as the main building material.

How does a 3D printer work?

The operating principles of 3D printers cannot be called simple, however, even a person who is not particularly knowledgeable in technology can get some idea about them.The device creates real things based on virtual models, creating the latter in a special integrated program. Subsequently, the model is “cut” into horizontal layers and converted into a digital code that will be understandable to the device.

Reference! A program that divides a model into layers is called a slicer. The task of the slicer is to give the device clear instructions on where the material will be applied.

After the object is built in the editor, processed by the slicer and converted into code, the printer begins printing. The printing of an object begins layer by layer from the very bottom to the very top.