It may sound like a pop band, but μ-WAAM is actually a 3D printing technique for making small metal parts from the NOVA University Lisbon. Of course, WAAM stands for wire arc additive ...

Overall, though, it’s a great example of what it takes to print steel parts at home. You’ll need a quality 3D printer, ruby nozzles and a controllable kiln, but it can be done. If you manage ...

Massachusetts-based Desktop Metal has a 3D-printing solution that's affordable and much faster than what's on the ... enabling engineers to create small parts and to make prototypes out of metal ...

BMW Group brands 3D-print metal & plastic parts for some exclusive cars. ... And for the BMW Group these techniques include laser beam melting small metal components for its top luxury brand.

When 3D printing on such a small scale, the particle size of the metal powder can make a huge difference. Micro laser sintering can print layer thicknesses less than 5 micrometers ...

While many designers and engineers find success with 3D-printing parts in plastic for prototyping and low-volume production, producing parts out of metal using similar technology has recently led ...

To make small shapes in metal, 3D printing is a far quicker method compared to metal cutting. ... To produce dense rocket parts, loose metal powder is laid in layers.

3D metal printing is still an experimental process in nearly all industries, ... it will soon become a standard means of rapidly producing small numbers of industrial parts.

Raise3D’s desktop metal 3D printer becomes available in 2022 along with its two other machines, a debinder and a furnace, which are essential to the process of creating metal parts from metal 3D ...

And while 3D metal printing has only just gotten to the point it can sell a single component, Mercedes sees this process completely changing the way it supplies parts for older, out-of-production ...

Researchers have come up with a 3D printing method using liquid metal that's claimed to produce structures at least 10 times faster than existing metal additive manufacturing processes, though it ...

In a 12-month trial of Spee3D’s metal 3D-printing technology, Australian Army soldiers fabricated parts like armored vehicle wheel-bearing covers and tested them in the field.