{"id":25487,"date":"2016-05-07T20:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T03:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/disneys-3d-printer-produces-models-almost-instantaneously-using-light"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:27","slug":"disneys-3d-printer-produces-models-almost-instantaneously-using-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/disneys-3d-printer-produces-models-almost-instantaneously-using-light","title":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s 3D Printer Produces Models Almost Instantaneously Using Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/disneys-3d-printer-produces-models-almost-instantaneously-using-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disney Research has designed a new 3D printer that utilizes light on photosensitive resin so that models can be printed out as whole objects instead of by the layer, cutting down 3D printing from hours down to just minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Disney Research <a href=\"http:\/\/pdfaiw.uspto.gov\/.aiw?PageNum=0&docid=20160107380&IDKey=F879C51A71EE&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fappft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526co1%3DAND%2526d%3DPG01%2526s1%3D20160107380%2526OS%3D20160107380%2526RS%3D20160107380\" target=\"_blank\">has patented its design<\/a> for \u201ca nearly instantaneous\u201d 3D printer that uses light to cure resin selectively to produce an entire model out of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dsystems.com\/quickparts\/learning-center\/what-is-stl-file\" target=\"_blank\">stereolithography (STL) file<\/a> all at once. Notably, this significantly cuts down printing time. Or at least, it will if it makes it to market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresently, 3D printing is extremely slow and time consuming. For example, it may take several hours to print a single 3D object even if the 3D object is relatively small (e.g., several inches in diameter and four to 12 inches tall),\u201d the patent stated. It continues, \u201cthe 3D printing process that uses conventional 3D printers such as an FFF-based 3D printer is limited in its speed by the speed of the <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/videos\/huge-printing-projects-can-now-split-thanks-multi-headed-3D-printer\/\">mechanism moving the print head<\/a> to each new position on a print layer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/disneys-3d-printer-produces-models-almost-instantaneously-using-light\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/disneys-3d-printer-produces-models-almos...ing-light\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney Research has designed a new 3D printer that utilizes light on photosensitive resin so that models can be printed out as whole objects instead of by the layer, cutting down 3D printing from hours down to just minutes. Disney Research has patented its design for \u201ca nearly instantaneous\u201d 3D printer that uses light to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67547,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions\/67547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}