From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Metal 3D Printing
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Overview of higher-volume-production metal additive
From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Metal 3D Printing
Overview of higher-volume-production metal additive
- [Instructor] Bench top 3D printing systems that use something similar to regular filament are intended for printing small numbers of parts. The next step up is either a type of printing that uses powder with a binder or a printer that directly centers metal. In either of these cases, unless you're planning on getting into metal 3D printing in a big way, this is probably going to be a process you'll vend out as the machines get into the million dollar and above range very quickly. However, if you're making a lot of parts, the cost per part may be lower in these machines. They're scaled for this type of batch processing. If you're going to be doing more than occasional print runs, you should do the exercise of costing out printers or print services at scale. Printers that use powders are more economical to run, may do batch jobs that fill as much of their build volume as possible. Filament, like metal printing uses powders,…
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