The laser sintering/milling hybrid process can be ideal for manufacturing molds. It can make use of four different materials: hot rolled steel, maraging steel (H13 equivalent that can be heat-treated ...

Concentration on a sole machine of screen printing, component transfer and laser sintering/soldering process. The component position is controlled with micrometric accuracy. Position and force applied ...

Laser-sintering prototypes and fixtures already achieves significant cost and time savings over other processes, but more importantly, DMLS offers a new age of innovative design freedom. ... With a ...

Direct Metal Laser Sintering ... DMLS machines come in various build platform sizes. Two of the more popular build platforms are 4 in. × 4 in. × 3 in. and 10 in. × 10 in. × 12 in.

The new machine is a significant improvement on the laser sintering machines now widely used around the world to build complex 3D forms from computer files, according to its creator, Professor ...

The machines that are now so ubiquitous for us hackers, ... Selective Laser Sintering 3D printers use a laser on a bed of powder to solidify a 3D object layer by layer.

Building prototypes and finished parts in a machine from powdered thermoplastics and metals that are cured by heat from a laser. From CAD drawings that have been cross sectioned into thousands of ...

Miller, an active participant in the open-source maker movement, first identified commercial CO2 laser cutters as prime candidates for a low-cost, versatile selective sintering machine in early ...

Specifically, laser sintering converts at least 50% of the precursor mass into ceramic. Conventional approaches typically convert only 20–40% of the precursor. "Lastly, our technique is ...