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3d printing technology is immensely popular and is making rapid advancements. But have you ever wondered what are its advantages and disadvantages? This Buzzle Post tells you how we can benefit from this technology and also its possible negative effects. Did you know the photonic professional? GT is a 3d printer created by nano scribe, which can print 3d objects of what’s smaller than the diameter of a strand of human hair, and with great precision, 3d printing employs layered printing to create tangible objects using digital 3d models. In other words. If you possess the blueprint, see AD file of an object, say a cup, a toy car or the Eiffel Tower. You can print it in three dimension. This means you can print a miniature replica of the famous monument in Paris or a real cup that you can use to enjoy your favorite coffee. The raw materials used for 3d printing include plastics, wood, paper, resin and glass. Now, imagine seeing your imaginations come to life with you doing nothing. But creating the design using a three-dimensional design software, isn’t it amazing? Well, it’s almost too good to be true merits and demerits of 3d printing, in spite of the huge hype surrounding 3d printing and how it’s on its way to revolutionize the way we manufacture products, it has its own share of disadvantages. Here we shall look at both sides of the coin Merits with 3d printing technology, manufacturing stuff has become easier than never before. Now anyone can. Then you factor any project. They want using nothing but a 3d printer and the desired raw material. This has paved the way for customized products as it allows you to create your own designs in 3d and get them printed since 3d technology can manufacture stuff in an instant, it facilitates rapid prototyping, which means it takes really short time for designs to get converted into their respective prototypes. You might think that the cost of 3d printing is very high, but the truth is that while the initial cost or cost of set-up is high, it is less when compared to labor costs and other costs involved in manufacturing, the product in the conventional way add to this the fact that the cost of manufacturing using 3d printing is the same for small-scale and mass production. And you have a winning technology at hand. Elimination of storage costs mass production gives rise to the problem of storage since small-scale production does not cost higher when using 3d printing technology, the need for mass production is eliminated and along with it. The requirement and costs of storage are also done away with the increasing use of 3d printing technology would create the requirement for highly skilled designers who are adapted using 3d printers and technicians who are skills at troubleshooting. One of the biggest breakthroughs brought about by 3d printing technology would be in the field of medicine and organ replacement to be specific where thousands of people die every year for the want of donor organs. This technology of creating human organs using 3d printing is termed as be a printing and the time is not far away when we shall be able to create complex human organs such as the heart and the brain using tissue from the organ recipient. This will not only address the shortage of donor organs, but also cut down organ rejections demerits counterfeiting, The biggest possible disadvantage of 3d printing is counterfeiting or production of fake stuff and the copyright infringement issue arising due to it, This technology makes a manufacturer out of anyone who owns the 3d printer and gets hold of the blueprint. Thus it would be very difficult to trace the source of fake items and copyright holders would have a hard time protecting their rights. If you give technology in the hands of people, there will always be a few who would use it for the wrong purposes, and 3d printing is no exception with everything being created with a click of the mouse. This technology can be easily used to guns and other dangerous weapons. In fact, a Canadian land has reportedly created the world’s first 3d printed rifle out of plastic using a blueprint that he downloaded from the Internet. Also, the technology can be used by small children to print out stuff that might prove hazardous at present 3d printers have limitations when it comes to size of the objects created, however, in the near future, we shall have printers that can even print architectural structures production of unnecessary stuff. Another possible disadvantage of 3d printing is that people would print stuff on a whim and this would resolve in a huge number of unnecessary stuff being produced. Add to that the difficulty we already face in recycling stuff. And you have a serious problem here. Raw material limitations, Currently 3d printing is viable for items made from a single raw material. Only, however, the technology of creating stuff using more than one material is being developed and will soon be a reality invented during the single-quote 90s 3d printing has surely come a long way. The cost of 3d printers is quite high and it is yet to become accessible to the common man. However, efforts are being made to bring this technology to the masses with the manufacture of printers that are not so expensive.