Free Tool for Estimating Metal AM Costs
Metal 3D printing services are generally fairly friendly and knowledgeable and are happy to give you quotes for your printed parts all day long. But it’s usually not an automated process ...
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3D Printing Metal
3D printing metal technologies like powder bed fusion, metal binder jetting, and directed energy deposition have grown at an explosive pace. Read everything about it here on 3DPrinting.com.
Reusing Metal Powders
Metal powders are costly, and depending on the geometry of the part, can be even more costly due to unused powders which often go unrecycled. Big hollow parts leave a lot of unused ...
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NASA Funded Project Successfully DEDs GRCop-42 Copper Alloy
Additive Manufacturing and copper have both been finding a friend in the space industry recently, particularly in the domain of rocket engines. We have seen multiple examples this year of 3D ...
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NASA uses Blown Powder Method to Scale up Rockets
We have taken a look at how the private sector are using additive manufacturing to build rocket engines in this previous article. In that example, the engineers use powder bed fusion for ...
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Nature-inspired Ocean & Wind Turbine Mods Boost Efficiency
Wind turbines can be a little bit lossy in terms of their aerodynamic performance. Luckily mother nature has been working on this problem for a few billion years, and Toronto-based design ...
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3D Printing Metal and Plastic in One Go
Metal and plastic hybrid 3D printing has long been the aim of those wishing to print PCBs and rudimentary electronic components, such as strain gauges, resistors, basic transistors and maybe ...
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When to choose Metal Injection Molding and when 3D Printing
Metal Injection Molding (MIM) has been around for some time, but has been plagued with issues including void formation and part fatigue problems. As will most things manufacturing, it has ...
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Fine Surface Finishes for Metal AM
Surface finish for metal additive manufacturing really is the key to its usefulness. Nobody wants a rough, wavy part, especially if it is to mate with another component or seal some kind of ...
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Interview with Arian Aghababaie, Co-Founder of Holo
Metal 3D printing is maturing into a market that’s full of options. There are now metal AM solutions across a range of price points, and hybrid machines that can add & subtract metal to ...
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Sierra Turbines 3D Prints Microturbines that are 40% More Efficient
While some in the manufacturing world are slow to adopt metal 3D printing, Roger Smith is not one of them. As the CEO of Sierra Turbines, he plans to completely revamp the microturbine ...
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First Flight Critical Aerospace Component Receives FAA Certification
Defence giant Honeywell, has recently announced that their 3D printed bearing housing has been approved for use on the Dassault Falcon 20G maritime patrol aircraft. At last, a 3D printed ...
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3D Printing Helps Produce World’s Lightest eBike Prototype
We’ve seen several cycling innovations related to 3D printing over the last couple of years, like printing frames and helmets for increased rigidity and less weight. Now a bike Guinness ...
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Researchers use Machine Learning for Monitoring In-situ Metal Pore Formation
Porosity and other defects are a problem where it comes to parts printed with metal powder bed fusion processes. One team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne ...
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Cold Metal Fusion: What is it?
In this post we will be looking at the Cold Metal Fusion (CMF) AM method, and we will be answering that exact question. What is it? Cold Metal Fusion is a powder-based indirect metal ...
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3D Printed Liquid Rocket Injector Head Reduces Weight, Heat, and Lead Times
When the engineers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) Institute of Structures and Design were tasked with designing the liquid rocket engine ...
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Classic Car Carburetor Replica by Tecron & Markforged
Markforged has released a report highlighting a whole bunch of case studies from users of their range of machines, both carbon composite and indirect metal printing. Let’s take a look at an ...
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Australian Army Tests WarpSPEE3D Metal 3D Printing in the Bush
When a 3D printing company really wants to demonstrate that their manufacturing capabilities can keep up with (or outperform) the best of the best, it’s common to put those capabilities in ...
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3D Printing “Damascus” Steel
Damascus steel is a highly-valued type of steel that’s created by repeatedly folding together two steels that have different levels of carbon content. High-carbon steel is incredibly hard, ...
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3D Printing and Formula 1
Formula 1 is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), meaning F1 cars are the fastest road-course race cars in the world, capable ...
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ESA Tests ALM Rocket Engine
Last week we took a look at the 3D printed liquid rocket engine in the world from a Brooklyn-based company called Launcher. They had 3D printed a copper rocket nozzle, throat and combustion ...
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