3D Printing: Rapid Prototyping from Food to Food Packaging

Three-dimensional printing (3D printing) is a technology for generating three-dimensional objects from digital information. Another more accurate descriptor is additive manufacturing or additive processing because it depends on adding materials to build the object being printed. Developed originally during the 1980s as stereo-lithography by the late Chuck Hull, 3D printing was refined in 1989 by Jon Hirschtick, founder of Onshape (www.onshape.com) and SolidWorks (www.solidworks.com). (Hirschtick…