WHERE DID FUSED FILAMENT FABRICAT ION ORIGINATE ?
FFF is also known as fused deposition modeling (FDM). FDM was developed by S. Scott Crump in the
late 1980s, and further developed and commercialized by Stratasys Ltd. in the 1990s. Indeed, FDM is a
trademark of Stratasys Ltd. (the owners of MakerBot Industries). Since the majority of 3D printers use
this process (the process is not trademarked, only the term FDM), FFF is used to avoid confusion with
the Stratasys trademark