Three-dimensional printing stereolithography

Other uses include the production of flexographic printing plates from UV-cur-able materials. An interesting application is three-dimensional modeling (stereolithography) in which a solid part is made from a vat of UV-curable liquor by the use of UV lasers controlled by computers using CAD/CAM software. 

The concept of three-dimensional (3D) printing goes back to Charles W. Hull (1). In 1984 Hull used UV light to harden tabletop coatings and created the term stereolithography (2). 

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