Paleontology-3D Printing Use Cases

Paleontologists will have a field day with 3D printing, as it may help complete dinosaur skeletons by printing elusive missing bones.

The Smithsonian museum staff experimented recently by printing the missing bones of a T. rex exactly to specification. The 3D workflow enabled the team to experiment widely and safely using modeling software, saved time and reduced risk to the integrity of the real skeleton.

Information contained within this page originally appeared on Formlabs.com

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