Why is a 3D printer hot and not cold?

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Why does the 3D printer heat up? Wouldn’t the print melt? Shouldn’t it instead cool down so the print would freeze?

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There are many different kinds of 3d printers, and they all use different methods. I’m not familiar with them all but the kind I have SLA:

Works with a liquid resin that is kept at room temperature and exposed to UV light from a small screen that sits under the print surface.

It will heat some, but even after 8-10 hour prints I doubt it’s much more than a few degrees of temp.

I can’t speak of other kinds.

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