Glossary
Additive manufacturing terms and acronyms, and what each of them means.
287Terms
146Acronyms Expanded
20Categories
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287 terms in 20 categories
- 3D Benchy
- 3D Print Resolution
- AIArtificial Intelligence
- APIApplication Programming Interface
- ARAugmented Reality
- AUVAutonomous Underwater Vehicle
- Bed Levelling
- Belt 3D Printer
- Benchtop
- Bioprinting
- Build Chamber
- Build Density
- Build Fail
- Build Orientation
- Build Plate
- Build Supports
- Build Volume
- CADComputer Aided Design
- Cobot
- Connex
- Cool Down
- Core XY
- CSDContinuous Droplet
- DDMDirect Digital Manufacturing
- De-Powdering
- Delta 3D Printer
- Deposition Rate
- Desktop 3D Printer
- Digital Foam
- Digital Twin
- Distributed Manufacturing
- DODDrop on Demand
- Escape Hole
- Extruder Head
- Failure Rate
- File Fixing
- Fused Deposition Modelling
- Fused Filament Fabrication
- G-Code
- Heated Bed
- Home 3D Printing
- Hot End
- Industrial 3D Printing
- Infill
- Infill Density
- Interlocking Parts
- Layer Height
- LFAMLarge Format Additive Manufacturing
- LPBLaser Powder Bed
- MIMMetal Injection Moulding
- MLMachine Learning
- Multi-Material
- Multicolour Plaster
- Nesting
- Nesting Software
- NFTNon-Fungible Token
- Orange Peel
- Overhang
- Polyjet
- Powder Bed
- Powder Ratio
- Print Parameters
- Printer Farms
- Raft
- Rapid Prototyping
- Recoater
- Refresh Rate
- Replacement Parts
- Resin Printing
- Salmon Skin
- SCARASelective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm
- SCARA 3D Printer
- Selective Laser Melting
- Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
- Shrinkage Value
- Slicing
- Stepping
- Stratification
- Support Removal
- SVGScaleable Vector Graphic
- TRLTechnology Readiness Level
- UIUser Interface
- UXUser Experience
- VRVirtual Reality
- VTOLVertical Take-Off and Landing