From 3D Systems Annual Report on February 28, 2018: 3D Systems is a leading provider of SD printing centric design-to-manufacturing solutions including 3D printers, printed materials, and cloud sourced on-demand custom parts for professionals and consumers alike in materials including plastics metals, ceramics and edibles. The company also provides integrated 3D scan-based design, freeform modeling and inspection tools. Its products and services replace and complement reduce the time and cost of designing new products by printing real parts directly from digital input. These solutions are used to rapidly design, create, communicate, prototype or produce real parts, empowering customers to manufacture the future. Selected financial data for the whole Company follows traditional methods and 2016 2017 all amounts are in thousand dellars) Net sales Cost of sales Gross profit Operating expenses 234,5005353,633 513,400 S 121.395 172437 245.806 S 113.105 181.196 5 267594 Selling, geoeral and administrative Research and development 9,7485 97 422 S 133,244 5 14.331 5 23.203 39544 5 74,079 5 120,625 5 172.788 39,026 S 60,571 94,806 Total operating expenses Operating income(loss)