3D printers for metal parts have recently appeared on the market, initially for low volume, ultra-complex applications such as for aerospace turbines. The first commercial, metal AM process involved ...

Rosotics points out that some materials used in traditional laser sintering, such as powdered ... to convert a MIG welder into a rudimentary metal 3D printer instead.

Everyone wants to print using metal. It is possible ... are common sense to designers used to 3D printing. However, some appear to have to do with the sintering process and we wondered how ...

Kodama, Crump, and Hull weren't the only ones to develop 3D printing methods, however. Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is useful for creating ornate individual parts. That makes it a go-to for ...

3D printing builds parts out of plastic, metal and other materials directly ... and economically than with conventional methods. Laser sintering and electron beam melting technologies turned ...

A few months ago, Verne Additive Manufacturing Labs announced it was developing a new selective laser sintering (SLS) ...