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6-AXIS 3D PRINTER: HOW TO MANUFACTURE NON-PLANAR CONTINUOUS FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES

3D printing is referred to as such because it allows to produce 3 dimensional objects; however, the printing process itself is actually more like 2.5D. What does it mean? The conventional additive manufacturing process consists in laying material on top of each other on a horizontal plane, meaning that the printing head and the nozzle move only in a planar coordinate system building layers for creating a three-dimensional object.