3D Printing
An object that has height, width, and depth.
What is 3D?
To cut or carve (a design or text) onto a surface.
What is etching?
A container in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power.
What is a battery?
The speed at which the print head moves while it is printing.
Software or designs that are freely available and can be accessed, distributed, and modified by anyone.
What is open source?
A sample or model of a product that is built as a test to be learned from or copied.
What is a prototype?
A set of horizontal lines composed of individual pixels, used to form an image on a screen or in matrix printing.
What is a raster?
A tool used for melting solder and applying it to metals that are to be joined.
What is a soldering iron?
The speed at which the print head moves while it is not extruding any plastic.
What is travel speed?
3D file visible to anyone who has the Tinkercad link.
What is a public link?
The material that is used for 3D printing. It has the shape of a wire and is usually coiled on a spool.
What is filament?
File format for vector files.
What is SVG?
A flow of electric charge.
What is electric current?
A common name for the parts that control the extrusion of the filament.
What is extruder?
3D open source programs for creating and modifying 3D designs.
What is Tinkercad?
A biodegradable bioplastic made from renewable resources.
What is PLA?
The creation of digital images through a sequence of commands or mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given two-dimensional or three-dimensional space
What is a vector?
The process of taking an alloy of copper and silver that melts at a defined temperature.
What is solder?
The thickness of one layer of the 3D print.
What is layer resolution?
A virtual sculpting software program.
What is Sculptris?
A strong plastic with high shrinkage.
File format that must be used for the laser to read your vector files.
What is PDF?
A semiconductor device that emits visible light when an electric current passes through it.
What is LED?
The accuracy with which the print head moves around in the X and Y direction.
What is positioning precision?
Open source software that allows you to create vectors.
What is Inkscape?