DED

Metal

AddUp Is Helping Bring Metal 3D Printing to Space

To make additive manufacturing in microgravity possible, the group has chosen to use a process that promotes forces induced by surface tension — wire-laser combination (W-DED).

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Basics

Powder Comparison: Standards for DED Material Substitutes

What powder properties lead to performance similar to a DED powder? Basic flowability energy, particle density and particle morphology are key candidates.

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Robots

Robots Combine for Faster DED Build Rate (Video)

The Medusa system merges multiple robots into a single system for efficient additive manufacturing of large metal parts.

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Sciaky Delivering World’s Largest Metal EB DED 3D Printer

Contract calls for a customized, high-deposition EBAM 300 Series additive manufacturing system to Turkish Aerospace Industries to 3D print titanium aerostructures 6 meters (nearly 20 feet) in length.

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Materials

The Way Ahead for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing

Tooling today, production tomorrow. The capability will advance as value is increasingly seen in lead time savings and design opportunities. Parts that today are cast offer a particularly promising application for a process that is “welding, except not.”

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Materials

Siemens, Gefertec Collaborate on Additive Manufacturing Software

Siemens’ NX software now supports operations for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) printing technology.

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Sporting Goods

Thermoplastic Composites Facilitate DED of Electric Scooter

The Scotsman scooter’s creators say it is the first fully custom, 3D printed electric scooter. The company uses Arevo’s Aqua DED system to print the carbon-fiber thermoplastic composite body.

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DED

Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Error Turns Nozzle Into Chess Piece — AM: Why the Failure? #3

Chess pieces are often 3D printed as demo parts, but this one was an accident! What happened? The answer involves heat transfer.

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Automation

ESPRIT CAM, Alma CAM Partner for Robot Additive DED Programming

Collaboration to provide customers with an end-to-end solution for robot programming, simulation, verification, collision detection, code generation and more.

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DED

Optomec Metal 3D Printers Designed for Research, Production

Compact Directed Energy Deposition (DED) machines include automation for batch processing.

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