Postprocessing
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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Additive Manufacturing and CNC Machining: Separate Together? Hear the Recorded Webinar
A maker of CNC machine tools and a maker of AM technology come together to describe integrating additive and subtractive into an efficient process for production.
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Integrating Additive Without Inhibiting Machining
Can AM be added to a CNC machine tool while keeping the machine’s cutting capabilities fully intact?
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High-Throughput Cell Segregates Additive, Subtractive Processes
The real value of building parts layer by layer isn't the potential to replace conventional, subractive machining, but to complement it.
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Hybrid Manufacturing in the Spotlight at Canadian AM Forum
PTooling's hybrid machining center became the centerpiece of an AM forum and open house held at the company's Ontario facility.
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Why Your Machine Shop Will Have a 3D Printer
In the future, we’re likely to take it for granted that small machining businesses routinely use 3D printing as a complement to their machine tools. The 3D printer can do work that frees up the more valuable machines.
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