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Alumide is a material used in 3D printing consisting of nylon filled with aluminium dust, its name being a combination of the words aluminium and polyamide.Models are printed by sintering a tray of powder, layer by layer. [1]
A binder jetting 3D printer uses particles of a fine-grained powder, which are fused together using a binder, to form a three-dimensional object. [2] In principle, it consists out of two separate chambers: One functions as a reservoir for the powdered material, the other one as the printing chamber.
Printing: The process begins with printing the part using a filament containing metal powder bound in plastic. This filament, similar to that used in conventional FFF printers, is infused with metal. The printer deposits the metal-infused filament layer by layer, building up the shape of the part. These printed parts are referred to as "green ...
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. [1] [2] [3] It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer control, [4] with the material being added together (such as plastics, liquids or powder grains being fused), typically layer by layer.
This technology was first developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and patented in 1993. In 1996, the ExOne Company was granted an exclusive field-of-use patent for the technology, [2] while Z Corporation, which was later acquired by 3D Systems, [3] obtained a non-exclusive patent for use of the technology for metal casting purposes. [4]
Parts are manufactured by melting metal powder, layer by layer, with an electron beam in a high vacuum. This powder bed method produces fully dense metal parts directly from metal powder with characteristics of the target material. The EBM machine reads data from a 3D CAD model and lays down successive layers of powdered material.
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Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model used for 3D printing. The manual modeling process of preparing geometric data for 3D computer graphics is similar to plastic arts such as sculpting. 3D scanning is a process of collecting digital data on the shape and appearance of a real object, creating a digital model based on it.