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3D Printing: The New Frontrunner in EdTech

Samarth Vasdev, Director - Product Development, 3Dexter Education
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Samarth Vasdev, Director - Product Development, 3Dexter Education
Headquartered in New Delhi, 3Dexter is a nextgen education technology company that enables educational institutions to develop 3D Modelling and Printing as a skill among students of today through curriculum-based set-ups.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke.

Every once in a while, there comes a disruptive technology which threatens to erode existing structures based on primitive approaches. It changes the way we do things, gives birth to values that were previously non-existent and creates additional market opportunities. Here comes the good news - Inventions affect everyone; and in the long run, equally so. In fact, creation of new markets further brings in additional job opportunities. Which business doesn't employ computers today?

3D Printing, often termed as 'Additive Manufacturing' is one disruption that carries the potential to shake up the very way manufacturing of physical objects is done. A 3D Printer is a true 'Mini Factory' in itself: 3-Dimensional, physical objects are 'printed out' by the addition of layers on top of one another; a simple yet creative process. This decade has seen 3D Printing expand its scope to a multitude of domains all over the globe; ranging from the use of 3D Printers by surgeons in super-specialities to metallic rapid prototyping in aeronautics and automation, their use by fashion designers to print out fibres as well as its capabilities to 'print' chocolate in bakeries. Prototyping won't cost lakhs of Rupees or take months to complete; Product Designers are thrilled! The global 3D Printing market is expected to balloon to a whopping $30 Billion by 2022.

3D Printing in Education


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