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Postprocessing Composite Tooling: Machining, Coating or Combination Strategy?
A project testing the surface finishing options for composite tooling reveals insight about machining and coating strategies.
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Beyond Conformal Cooling: Uniform Thermal Surface Control
The concept leverages principles of conformal cooling to enable even more precise temperature control.
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Video: Safety Is No. 1 in Metal AM
John Murray of Concept Laser discusses safety, quality and automation as they relate to additive manufacturing for production metal parts.
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The Power of AM Is in Product and Process
Additive manufacturing will advance where DFAM improves product performance and is supported by the process chain.
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High-Speed Milling Meets Powder-Bed Additive Manufacturing
A hybrid machining center from Sodick integrates high-speed machining with direct metal laser sintering (DMLS).
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Webinar: Additive Manufacturing Needs Machining—How Should They Work Together?
Register for the free webinar by the Consortium for Advanced Hybrid Manufacturing—Integrating Technologies (CAM-IT) to be held November 30 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
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7 Helpful Numbers Quantify Design Rules for Additive Manufacturing
How tiny can features get? How high can walls extend? What is the longest unsupported distance a bridge of material can span between two features? These and other DMLS and SLS design rules addressed by expert from Proto Labs.
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What Is the Most Widely Used 3D-Printed Material?
ExOne’s CTO recently offered an educated guess. His answer highlights an underappreciated success of AM.
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Eight-Axis Robotic System Prints Composite Parts
This concept machine leverages robotics to 3D print in eight axes.
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DoD Utility Identifies Military Legacy Parts That Make the Most Sense for AM
How can the military find the best candidates for additive manufacturing out of millions of service components? It can’t without human attention, but a sorting utility helps to reduce the number to a manageable size.
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Molder’s Experience Illustrates How AM Will Interact with Other Advances
Additive manufacturing is not moving forward in isolation. It will leverage and work in harmony with other manufacturing technologies that are also moving forward.
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Successful Prints Require Feedback Before They Go to the Machine
DFAM is unlike designing for subtractive machining or injection molding, and requires acute understanding of the machine, process and materials involved.
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