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Is This a 3D Printing Turning Point?

Carbon3D says its technology enables objects to be created 25-100 times faster than conventional 3D printing.

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In what could be a milestone in 3D printing technology, a company calling itself Carbon3D recently unveiled its Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) technology.

According to Carbon3D, "existing 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, technology is really just 2D printing, over and over again. As a result, 3D printed parts take many hours, even days, to produce and are mechanically weak due to their shale-like layers. Using a tunable photochemical process instead of the traditional mechanical approach, Carbon3D’s layerless CLIP eliminates these shortcomings to rapidly transform 3D models into physical objects. By carefully balancing the interaction of UV light, which triggers photo polymerization, and oxygen, which inhibits the reaction, CLIP continuously grows objects from a pool of resin at speeds 25-100 times faster than traditional 3D printing."

Check out the videos below for a look at CLIP in action.