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Fabricated : The New World of 3D Printing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118416945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 670.427
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Contents:
Fabricated -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Everything is becoming science fiction -- Chapter 2: A machine that can make almost anything -- Printing three-dimensional things -- The ten principles of 3D printing -- Chapter 3: Nimble manufacturing: Good, fast, and cheap -- Somewhere between mass production and the local farmer's market -- The blank canvas of the 21st century -- Chapter 4: Tomorrow's economy of printable products -- Like ants with factories -- The experience economy -- A future economy of printable products -- Chapter 5: Printing in layers -- A manufacturing process at heart -- Two families of printers -- Cleaning up design files -- The raw materials -- Chapter 6: Design software, the digital canvas -- A word processor for drawing -- Today's design software -- What you design is not (necessarily) what you print -- The next generation of design software: digital capture -- Chapter 7: Bioprinting in "living ink" -- The printer of youth -- Tissue engineering -- CAD for the body -- The future -- Chapter 8: Digital cuisine -- Digital gastronomy -- Feeding the quantified self -- Processed food -- Chapter 9: A factory in the classroom -- Make to learn: Children's engineering -- Not a national crisis . . . but learning should be enjoyable -- Now let's see you draw that abstract equation on a graph -- Barriers to classroom adoption -- The road ahead -- Chapter 10: Unleashing a new aesthetic -- Computers that act like nature -- Printing wavy walls and custom gargoyles -- Chapter 11: Green, clean manufacturing -- A tale of two plastic toys -- Greener manufacturing -- 3D printing a more beautiful landfill -- Chapter 12: Ownership, safety, and new legal frontiers -- Printing weapons, drugs, and shoddy products -- Rip, mix, and burn physical things -- Exclusivity vs. the freedom to innovate.
Chapter 13: Designing the future -- Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. -- A bicycle for our imagination -- The language of shapes -- Changing the shape of design tools -- Chapter 14: The next episode of 3D printing -- The three episodes of 3D printing -- Cofabrication of multiple materials -- Moving from printing passive parts to active systems -- The final episode-from analog to digital -- Machines making machines -- References -- Index.
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Fabricated -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Everything is becoming science fiction -- Chapter 2: A machine that can make almost anything -- Printing three-dimensional things -- The ten principles of 3D printing -- Chapter 3: Nimble manufacturing: Good, fast, and cheap -- Somewhere between mass production and the local farmer's market -- The blank canvas of the 21st century -- Chapter 4: Tomorrow's economy of printable products -- Like ants with factories -- The experience economy -- A future economy of printable products -- Chapter 5: Printing in layers -- A manufacturing process at heart -- Two families of printers -- Cleaning up design files -- The raw materials -- Chapter 6: Design software, the digital canvas -- A word processor for drawing -- Today's design software -- What you design is not (necessarily) what you print -- The next generation of design software: digital capture -- Chapter 7: Bioprinting in "living ink" -- The printer of youth -- Tissue engineering -- CAD for the body -- The future -- Chapter 8: Digital cuisine -- Digital gastronomy -- Feeding the quantified self -- Processed food -- Chapter 9: A factory in the classroom -- Make to learn: Children's engineering -- Not a national crisis . . . but learning should be enjoyable -- Now let's see you draw that abstract equation on a graph -- Barriers to classroom adoption -- The road ahead -- Chapter 10: Unleashing a new aesthetic -- Computers that act like nature -- Printing wavy walls and custom gargoyles -- Chapter 11: Green, clean manufacturing -- A tale of two plastic toys -- Greener manufacturing -- 3D printing a more beautiful landfill -- Chapter 12: Ownership, safety, and new legal frontiers -- Printing weapons, drugs, and shoddy products -- Rip, mix, and burn physical things -- Exclusivity vs. the freedom to innovate.

Chapter 13: Designing the future -- Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. -- A bicycle for our imagination -- The language of shapes -- Changing the shape of design tools -- Chapter 14: The next episode of 3D printing -- The three episodes of 3D printing -- Cofabrication of multiple materials -- Moving from printing passive parts to active systems -- The final episode-from analog to digital -- Machines making machines -- References -- Index.

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