Last update : May 15, 2013
3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printing is considered as e-manufacturing. A list of available industrial and home 3D printers is given below :
Home 3D printers :
- UP! Personal Portable 3D Printer
- RepRap
- MakerBot Thing-O-Matic
- CupCake CNC
ReplicatorG is a software that will drive your home 3D printer or generic CNC machine. You can give it a GCode or STL file to process, and it takes it from there. It’s cross platform, easily installed, and is based on the familiar Arduino / Processing environments.
Industrial 3D printers :
- ZPrinter Product Line
- Objet Printers
- 3D Systems Printers
- EOS e-manufacturing solutions
- HP DesignJet Printers
- Stratasys Dimension and Fortus Printers
The following 3D printing providers offer web based services for private customers :
- Sculpteo in France
- Shapeways in USA and Netherlands
- Fabberhouse in Germany
- i-materialise in Belgium
- Ponoko in USA and NewZealand
- Quickforge in UK
- Kraftwürz in USA
- 3D printing model
- 3DPrint.lu in Luxembourg