Postprocessing
Additive Manufacturing and CNC Machining Enable Driver Clubhead with Increased Performance
A combination of laser sintering, advanced materials and CNC machining enabled the creation of the KD-1 high-performance golf driver clubhead.
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3D Printing with Postprocessing in Mind
3D printing requires different finishing considerations than traditional manufacturing. One expert offers do’s and don’ts for approaching the finishing of additively manufactured parts.
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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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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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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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Drilling Jig an Example of How 3D Printing Assists Machining
A machine shop benefits from 3D printing as a means of efficiently making custom hardware to aid both the process and the machines.
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Does AM Favor Integration?
Arconic, one of the companies launched in the separation of Alcoa, combines operations from metal powder production through postprocessing within a single company. Additive manufacturing perhaps uniquely benefits from bringing this range of capabilities together, since success in AM relies on more than 3D printing.
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Rize One Seeks to Alleviate 3D Printing Challenges
Using a process called Augmented Polymer Deposition, the 3D printer creates parts with supports that can be removed by hand. But that's only one piece of Rize's strategy.
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At IMTS, Methods 3D to Place AM in the Midst of Machine Tools
Machining demos will show additive parts postprocessed on CNC machines, and a high-speed 3D printing system will show fully automated production. “This is a manufacturing technology,” says company COO.
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