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3D Printers What is a 3D printer? 3D printers are not your average printer They bear little resemblance to todays document or photo printers, They can build objects from scratch—or rather, from a CAD or 3D scanner file—out of a variety of materials. How does it Work? A typical 3D printer is very much like an inkjet printer(喷墨式打印机） operated from a computer It builds up a 3D model one layer at a time, from the bottom upward, by repeatedly printing over the same area. The printer creates a model over a period of hours by turning a 3D CAD drawing into lots of two-dimensional（二维）, cross-sectional