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Electron Beam Melting: What Is It?

May 18, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Electron beam melting (EBM) is a type of additive manufacturing technique that uses a cathode ray as its heat source. EBM is a proprietary powder bed fusion technique developed by Arcam. Metal powder is melted in a high vacuum, layer by layer until … [Read more...] about Electron Beam Melting: What Is It?

Filed Under: 3D Printing Basics, Aerospace, Automotive, FAQs, Medical, Powder Bed Fusion, Production 3D Printers / AM Systems News Tagged With: Arcam

What is direct metal sintering?

May 11, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Direct Metal Sintering is a name coined by 3D Systems to describe a process similar to Direct Metal Laser Sintering. 3D Systems’ printers, like other metal laser sintering printers, create pure, fully dense metal parts with EN ISO (fine) machining … [Read more...] about What is direct metal sintering?

Filed Under: 3D Printing Basics, FAQs, Powder Bed Fusion, Production 3D Printers / AM Systems News, Professional 3D Printers News Tagged With: 3D Systems

What is DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering)?

May 4, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) is an additive manufacturing process specifically using metals as the material. Most alloys can be used in the DMLS process but 17-4 Precipitation Hardened (PH) and 15-5 PH stainless steel are the most common. The … [Read more...] about What is DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering)?

Filed Under: 3D Printing Basics, FAQs, Powder Bed Fusion, Production 3D Printers / AM Systems News, Professional 3D Printers News Tagged With: EOS

What is Laser Sintering?

April 20, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is a type of additive manufacturing process that uses a laser as a thermal source for fusing ceramic, glass, plastic, metal powder and others into a 3-dimensional object. Many consider SLS to have the most diverse list … [Read more...] about What is Laser Sintering?

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, FAQs, Powder Bed Fusion, Production 3D Printers / AM Systems News, Professional 3D Printers News, SLS Tagged With: Carl Deckard, Joe Beaman

What is a DLP 3D Printer?

April 13, 2015 By Mike Santora 2 Comments

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A DLP 3D printer is used in the additive manufacturing process where objects are created by a 3D printer that uses a digital light projector (DLP) as the light source for curing photo-reactive polymers. There are advantages and disadvantages to a DLP … [Read more...] about What is a DLP 3D Printer?

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, FAQs, Production 3D Printers / AM Systems News, Professional 3D Printers News, Vat Photopolymerization Tagged With: EnvisionTEC

What is FFF?

April 6, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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The term Fused Filament Fabrication or FFF was created by members of the Reprap project to avoid litigation over the previously trademarked term Fused Deposition Modeling coined by Stratasys, LTD. Both terms describe a nearly identical additive … [Read more...] about What is FFF?

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, Extrusion, FAQs, Personal 3D printers Tagged With: Reprap, Stratasys Ltd.

What is FDM?

March 30, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

What is FDM? Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a type of additive manufacturing process used for creating tangible 3-dimensional objects from CAD-designed digital files. Invented by S. Scott Crump in 1989, this trademarked 3D printing method uses … [Read more...] about What is FDM?

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, FAQs, FDM, Personal 3D printers, Professional 3D Printers News, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: S. Scott Crump, Stratasys Ltd.

Laser Melting: What Is It?

March 27, 2015 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Laser melting is an additive manufacturing method that uses a laser to heat a material into a fully melted liquid form. This is essentially the same process used in laser sintering with a few technical differences. Laser sintering uses heat to … [Read more...] about Laser Melting: What Is It?

Filed Under: 3D Printing Basics, FAQs, Production 3D Printers / AM Systems News, Professional 3D Printers News Tagged With: Airbus

What is Stereolithography?

March 23, 2015 By Mike Santora 1 Comment

Stereolithography (SLA) is a type of additive manufacturing process used for creating tangible 3-dimensional objects from CAD designs or 3D scanned digital files. The process, invented and named by Chuck Hull in 1986, uses photo-reactive (usually … [Read more...] about What is Stereolithography?

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, FAQs, Personal 3D printers, Professional 3D Printers News, SLA, Vat Photopolymerization Tagged With: Chuck Hull, stereolithography

What is a 3D Printer?

March 16, 2015 By Mike Santora 1 Comment

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3D printers are a specific type of industrial machine and are the primary tool used for the additive manufacturing process.  3D printers use data from CAD drawings and 3D scanners to create solid 3-dimensional objects out of some material. How it … [Read more...] about What is a 3D Printer?

Filed Under: 3D Printers, 3D Printing Basics, AM Systems, FAQs, Personal 3D printers, Production 3D Printers / AM Systems News, Professional 3D Printers News Tagged With: 3D printers, additive manufacturing

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