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In the recent time, Polylactic acid is used in fused deposition modeling for making drug carriers, medical tools, cups, automotive parts, packaging, bottles, outdoor applications in purpose of medical, automotive, textile, constructions fields. The limitations of polylactic acid (PLA) is low melting point, not the hardest or toughest plastic, high production cost. To overcome the above problem, ABS is the best suitable polymer. The ABS material normally used in unconventional method. It has the limitations of less dimensional stability, poor surface finish, low hardest property. So, ABS polymer is used in additive manufacturing method. Because, good dimensional stability, very high surface finish, light weight and suitable for vast range applications. Now a days, polymer parts made by additive manufacturing methods (AM) have multiple applications in various industries. Additive manufacturing has the many techniques, but we are using fused deposition modeling (FDM). FDM is a procedure that uses thermoplastic filament that has been parched to its melting point and then thrust out layer to form a 3D object. The aspects associated with 3D printing such as less material wastage, ease of manufacturing, less human involvement, less post processing and energy efficiency makes the process sustainable for industrial use. In this study investigate the effects of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) process parameters of material the tensile strength, impact strength and hardness test of three-dimensional (3D) printed Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) test parts were determined using the ASTM D638, ASTM D256 and ASTM.