Fused deposition modeling works on an "additive" principle by laying down material in layers.

(A method for making a prototype plastic injection molded part using a mold tool made by a fused deposition modeling technique)

RepRap (short for replicating rapid prototyper) uses a variant of fused deposition modeling, an additive manufacturing technique.

In 2003, Stratasys fused deposition modeling (FDM) was the best-selling rapid prototyping technology.

Fused deposition modeling, which is often referred to by its initials FDM, is a type of additive fabrication or technology commonly used within engineering design.

The term fused deposition modeling and its abbreviation to FDM are trademarked by Stratasys Inc.

The Dimension division of Stratasys manufactures 3D printing equipment which uses fused deposition modeling (FDM).

The scaffold is then realized by using ink-jet printing of polymer powders or through Fused Deposition Modeling of a polymer melt.

RedEye on Demand (a subsidiary of Stratasys), fused deposition modeling "printer," which laid down tiny layers of molten plastic to slowly build the statue.

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is an additive manufacturing technology commonly used for modeling, prototyping, and production applications.

The project calls it Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) to avoid trademark issues around the "fused deposition modeling" term.

S. Scott Crump, the inventor of fused deposition modeling (FDM) and co-founder of Stratasys, Inc.

Fused deposition modeling uses a plastic filament or metal wire that is wound on a coil and unreeled to supply material to an extrusion nozzle, which turns the flow on and off.

Many, perhaps most, threaded parts have potential to be generated via additive manufacturing, of which there are many variants, including fused deposition modeling, direct metal laser sintering, 3D printing, solid freeform fabrication, layered object manufacturing, and stereolithography.

There they were fed into a machine that, through a process called fused deposition modeling, built a three-dimensional figure by spraying paper-thin cross-sections of ABS plastic according to the body contours of the subject (hence, the delicate ridges) at a 1:10 scale.

Polycaprolactone is also used for splinting, modeling, and as a feedstock for prototyping systems such as a 3D Printer, where it is used for Fused Filament Fabrication (similar to the Stratasys' Fused Deposition Modeling technique).

Unlike some other additive manufacturing processes, such as stereolithography (SLA) and fused deposition modeling (FDM), SLS does not require support structures due to the fact that the part being constructed is surrounded by unsintered powder at all times, this allows for the construction of previously impossible geometries.

In January 1995, Stratasys purchased IBM's rapid prototyping intellectual property and other assets and employed 16 former IBM engineers, who had been developing a small 3-D printer that relied on an extrusion system very similar to Crump's patented fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology.