Economic and technogical considerations on the 3d printing components in university laboratories made from students

The scope of this research is to analyse the economic aspects of the 3D printing parts for making parts and functional sub-assemblies for different machinery. The author intends in this work to make a clarification on the economic approaches of processing FDM (Fused Deposition Modelling) and DLP (Digital Light Processing) materials which can be used for generating mechanically required items. The paper it is structured in 5 chapters. In the first chapter, there is an ordering of the materials based on the literature, but also from its own experience in generating parts by 3D printing. Synthesis is made both in terms of physical and mechanical properties, but also from the point of view of economic as well. It should be shown that the comparison will also be made from the point of view of 3D printing generation since two different printing processes are used both as the principle of generation and the way of obtaining the 3D parts. For generating, two printers will be used, which both constructively and functionally will be analysed, both as functionality and as component design possibilities. The second chapter affected to the ordering of technological parameters of 3D generation by printing the parts with defining the main technical parameters of generation of the parts. This step is important both to ensure the assembly conditions of the components, but also to the fact that the materials used to make the parts produce different comportment after the three directions in terms of contractions and the variation of the dimensions. The third chapter analyses the main ways of generating the parts with the presentation of some of the domain-specific elements generated by 3D printing with FDM and DLP. In the fourth chapter is presented the economic calculation program made with practical applications related to the parts generated in the previous chapter. The last chapter is allocated to the conclusions and comparisons from the technologicaleconomical point of view compared to other specific technologies for generating the analysed parts.