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Webinar: How to Reduce Metal 3D Printing Costs with a Reduced Support Strategy

July 9, 2021

Post-processing of metal AM parts can account for a significant portion of the total cost of making the part, with figures ranging from 26% (according to Wohler’s Report 2019) to over 70% according to other reports and personal experience).

Much of that post-processing involves manually removing support materials and cleaning up the remnants of the supports after they have been removed.

There is, of course, a very simple way to slash those support-removal costs, and that is to not use support materials at all, or at least minimise usage of supports.

3D Systems now offers an on-demand webinar, and they are going to show us all how to design metal parts with the aim of reducing or eliminating supports altogether by use of their NoSupports process.

The 3D Systems 3dxpert software contains a number of features which are geared towards reducing support material usage, and using this software tool to achieve exactly that will be the focus of the webinar. Naturally, it will be in the context of 3D Systems’ own DMP metal printer systems.

The webinar, which you can register for here, will look at the following topics:

  • – The historical challenge of minimum support angles
  • – 3DXpert tools for advanced segmentation and parameter assignment
  • – Multi-exposure strategies
  • – Thermal blades strategies

For those curious about some of these terms, 3D Systems explains:

“Multi-exposure can drastically reduce the self-supporting angle while maintaining a high-quality surface finish, and thermal blades provide a structure to transfer heat and control the weld process for the lowest-angle features without welding to the part.”

We are definitely curious, and will be watching with keen interest. Below’s that on-demand webinar registration link again.

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About the author | Phillip Keane
Phillip is an aerospace engineer from UK. He is a graduate of Coventry University (UK), International Space University (France) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), where he studied Advanced Manufacturing at the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing.
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