A type of material extrusion (MEX) additive manufacturing where a continuous filament of thermoplastic material is fed into a heated extruder and deposited on the current build layer. It is the generic name used for systems not manufactured by the process inventor, Stratasys, which uses the term fused deposition modeling.
Abbreviated as FFF.
Categories: Additive Manufacturing Processes, Material Extrusion
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