Guide highlights metal 3-D printing

3Diligent has released “Complete Guide to Metal 3D Printing: An Overview of Industry Advancement and Technologies,” a comprehensive source of information on current trends in metal 3-D printing and existing and emerging metal printing processes.

The 13-page report explores headlines on metal 3-D printing by GE and Boeing, as well as research by 3Diligent from its analysis of professional and industrial 3-D printing. It also includes a summary of the processes, applications, and pros and cons of established and emerging metal 3-D printing technologies, such as:

• Powder bed fusion – laser melting.
• Powder bed fusion – electron beam melting.
• infiltrated binder jetting.
• Directed energy deposition.
• Wax print-to-cast.
• Sand print-to-cast.
• Print-to-plating.
• Full sinter binder jetting.
• Sheet lamination.
• Nanoparticle jetting.
• Extrusion metal.