Design
An Aerospace Perspective on Additive Manufacturing
A forum recently hosted by the Ohio Aerospace Institute featured compelling reasons for implementing additive manufacturing in the industry. The challenge? Education.
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Design Guidelines for Conformal Cooling Water Lines
Additive manufacturing enables complex geometries and nonround cross-sections for conformal cooling lines, but some design lessons from conventionally drilled lines are still relevant.
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Students Develop Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) Worksheet for 3D Printing Success
A team of researchers at Purdue University developed and tested a DFAM worksheet to help novice and intermediate 3D printing users increase build success and minimize reprints.
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How to Think About Design for Additive Manufacturing
It’s not as simple as changing the manufacturing method. True DFAM involves tradeoffs, specialization and even failure.
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Incorporating Text with Laser Sintering
Laser sintering makes it possible to incorporate text directly into a part for identification or aesthetic reasons. For the greatest chance of success, follow these tips.
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Consider Thickness, Tolerance and Proximity in Laser-Sintered Holes
A study offers guidelines for hole design in laser sintering applications.
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Wanted: Flexible Shops and Open-Minded Pros
AM is more complicated than the hype implies. It needs creative people to advance its adoption in this industry.
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Guidelines for Wall Thickness in Laser Sintering
A study reveals insights for additively manufacturing reliable walls and avoiding warpage.
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GE Team Secretly Printed a Helicopter Engine, Replacing 900 Parts with 16
GE Additive’s Ehteshami says, “To make these parts the ordinary way, you typically need 10 to 15 suppliers, you have tolerances, you have nuts, bolts, welds and braces.” With additive, “all of that went away.” The helicopter project is a detail in a story worth knowing.
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Casting a New Light on Manufacturing
3D printing brings new possibilities to a functional part we might have never thought of as a functional part: the rigid cast used to heal bones.
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