Design Guidelines by Additive Manufacturing Process
Polymers & Filaments 3D Printing
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HP® Multi Jet Fusion (MJF)
HP Multi Jet Fusion, or MJF for short, is a powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process that deposits fusing and detailing agents into powder material to create isotropic polymer parts.
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Stratasys® Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
Fused Deposition Modeling is an additive manufacturing process that selectively deposits a thermoplastic filament through a heated nozzle to build up parts layer by layer.
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ETEC® Digital Light Processing (DLP or cDLM)
Digital Light Processing, or DLP for short, is a phased array wide area additive manufacturing process that uses a projected light source to cure layers of photopolymer resin.
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Stereolithography (SLA)
Stereolithography or SLA, is a vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing process that uses a UV laser light source to selectively cure each layer of a part, tracing it into a vat of liquid photosensitive thermoset resin.
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PolyJet
PolyJet is a liquid photopolymer jetting additive manufacturing process that uses ultrafine printheads to deposit a liquid photopolymer resin layer by layer. Parts printed with PolyJet can have multiple materials or colours.
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FORUST Bio-Mass Binder-Jetting
Shop System Forust Edition is the first commercially available 3D printing system to process upcycled sawdust into functional, end-use wood parts using high-speed binder jetting technology.
Metal 3D Printing
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Desktop Metal® Metal Binder Jetting
Metal binder jetting is an additive manufacturing process where a binding agent is selectively deposited onto a powder bed of metal binding the payers together to form a green part. This part then goes through a multi-step process to remove binder and to sinter the part into its final metal form.
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Desktop Metal® Bound Metal Deposition (BMD)
Bound Metal Deposition™ (BMD) is an extrusion-based metal additive manufacturing (AM) process where metal components are constructed by extrusion of a powder-filled thermoplastic media. Once printed, the binder is removed via the debind process, and then sintered—causing the metal particles to densify.
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Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS)
Direct metal laser sintering is a metal additive manufacturing process where a high-power laser is directed towards a bed of powdered metal and sinters particles together to form a part.
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Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
Selective Laser Sintering or SLS, is a powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process where a laser selectively sinters polymer powder layer by layer to build a part.
Design Guidelines for Specific Materials
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Formlabs® Alumina 4N Resin | SLA Design Guidelines
Ceramic Alumina 4N Resin by Formlabs® is a high-density and high-purity technical ceramic used in situations where metal and polymers would fail.
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ETEC Adaptive 3D ETR90 Elastomer 3D Printing Material
ETR90 is an elastomeric resin designed for ETEC DLP 3D printing platforms