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Article: United states : Scientists develop method to create glass objects using conventional 3-D printer.
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- September 29, 2009
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A team of engineers and artists working at the University of Washington s (UW s) Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer.The team s method, which it named the Vitraglyphic process, is a follow-up to the Solheim Lab s success last spring printing with ceramics.
It became clear that if we could get a material into powder form at about 20 microns we could print just about anything, said Mark Ganter, a UW professor of mechanical engineering and co-director of the Solheim Lab.
Three-dimensional printers are used as a cheap, fast way to build prototype parts. In a typical powder-based ...