If you want more information about these first experiences, check out our interview of Jean-Claude André. This 3D printing attempt was also using a stereolithography process. Unfortunately, he did not file the patent requirement before the deadline.Ī few years later, a French team of engineers, Alain Le Méhauté, Olivier de Witte and Jean-Claude André, was interested by the stereolithography but abandoned due to a lack of business perspective. He was the first to describe a layer by layer approach for manufacturing, creating an ancestor for SLA (or Stereolithography): a photosensitive resin was polymerized by an UV light. The first 3D printing attempts are granted to Dr Kodama for his development of a rapid prototyping technique. The concept of 3D printing has been imagined back in the 1970’s, but the first experiments are dated from 1981.
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