Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing has enjoyed a recent surge of attention over the past decade.
AM is a process in which digital 3D design data is used as input to build physical objects by combining
sequence layers of material. By increasing demand in use of additive manufacturing for fabrication of end-user
parts, there is considerable interest in developing new techniques which can offer high quality customized parts
at low cost. Selective Separation Shaping (SSS) is a new AM technology developed with the goal of fabricating
low cost, high resolution 3D parts. The main advantage of SSS is that this process enables building fully
functional pieces without the need of any intermediate binder or high cost laser operation. This process has been
primarily applied to metallic, and ceramic materials and test cases were successfully built. There has been no
study on fabrication of parts using polymeric material and the goal of this research is to examine successful
fabrication of polymer parts. Nylon 6,6 has been used as starting base material and several test cases were
fabricated to identify key factors in success of this process. Different classes of nylon are studied to achieve
better understanding of material properties on success of fabrication and achieve an effective binding between
layers. Finally, 3D printed parts built by SSS are presented.Mechanical Engineerin
