Meltio Augments Wire-Laser Metal 3D Printing Technology for Easier Use, Reliability

Meltio, a laser metal deposition technology manufacturer, has developed three more metal 3D printing solutions to further enable the use and reliability of its wire-laser metal 3D printing technology. The Meltio M450 metal 3D printer, Meltio Engine CNC Integration and Meltio Engine Robot Integration will be faster, more precise, easier to use and more reliable.

In particular, the tailor-made Meltio Horizon software and Laser Calibration System are designed to assist engineers in their additive manufacturing production workflow. Both technological solutions developed by Meltio’s engineering team represent a further step in the company’s strategy to eliminate the barriers that have prevented metal AM from having a significant presence in many industrial sectors. 

“We have developed the Meltio Horizon software and the Laser Calibration System with the aim of facilitating the use of Meltio’s metal 3D printing technology for industries around the world. It should be noted that metal additive manufacturing has historically been associated with complex and expensive software, limited to the use of very few people because it was very specialized,” says Ángel Llavero, Meltio CEO. “At Meltio, with the launch of our new software, we facilitate and shorten the learning time for you to democratize metal 3D printing so that your software is accessible and easy-to-use for many different profiles within a company. The Laser Calibration System will give industrial companies a new tool to be able to work with guaranteed reliability in the creation of their metal parts.”

The company says Meltio Horizon is a proprietary toolpath generator software that ensures a fully tailored customer experience around its plug-and-play metal 3D printer, the Meltio M450, with its own unique features and custom-developed Meltio print and material profiles included. The software solution is tailored to use the wire-laser metal deposition process with the Meltio M450. Until recently, Meltio users have been reliant on using third-party Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) slicers to prepare tool paths for the Meltio M450. 

In addition to traditional slicing parameters used in FFF software (such as layer height, line width, print speed and support materials), the Meltio Horizon provides tailor-made access to Meltio’s laser-wire process and material-specific parameters such as laser power, dual wire and hot wire settings.

With the Meltio Horizon software, all of the material-related settings are directly in the slicing software, enabling full control and just a single profile. This also enables the creation of more specialized printing profiles, with the power to directly control the laser and hot wire on a “per slicing feature” basis, rather than being set for the full part.

This slicer is currently only compatible with the Meltio M450 metal 3D printer. For Meltio Engines (CNC and Robot Integration), the company is currently working on developing its open software ecosystem partnerships that enables the generation of 5-Axis G-Codes.

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