Why Education & Fashion Should Adopt 3D Printing

Today’s 3D printing technology is presenting a new way and enhanced visual, touch experience that is most needed by educational and fashion segment. Solution providers should brace themselves to drive ahead with this technological advancement.

With technology leading the way in the printing segment, 3D printing has entered the mainstream and it set to disrupt every industry’s manufacturing processes in an innovative manner, in such scenario, Education and Fashion are two segments that should embrace 3D printing in order to do more with less and solution provider community is ideally poised to enable this technological development ahead.

As far as the fashion segment is concerned, 3D printing is not entirely new to the fashion industry, as jewellery designers have for years outsourced quick modeling jobs to printing companies.

When it comes to art, 3D is surely the way that they need as it gives them another dimension to look and feel. Within the fashion circuits, 3D printing surely has the finesse necessary to break into an industry known for its appreciation to quality rather than quantity. With technology coming to its aid, 3D printing is becoming more and more wearable now.

Driving this revolution ahead, printers are getting closer to producing good fabric-like materials, which can be wearable in future, using interlocking structures to create weaves and stitches. And yes this is a chicken and egg situation as when more fashion designers start using 3D printing, it will make a case for 3D printing technology vendors to invest in a focused manner in developing more breathable, wearable materials.

Education is another segment which should be going in for 3D printing as there is huge potential to increase the envelope of opportunities with 3D coming into picture. Especially, the higher education segment has great applications and practical implications where 3D presents a great way to help students understand complex structures and models in a better and easy to learn manner.

Special implications of 3D include, scaling and altering designs on a CAD file will drastically reduce workload by hours for students. Even for the teachers, this could mean that more quality teaching can be done with the help of 3D printed designs. Moving forward, 3D printing could simply be a standard design tool to be used as needed by various fields of higher education segment like engineering, medical etc.

And as we move ahead, 3D printing technology is set to drive a new wave of visual experience and education and the fashion segment are ideally poised to get most benefit from this new age technology. As enablers of technological advancements, solution provider community should move ahead and embrace this technology first so that they are in a better position to provide solutions to their SMB customers.