Topic: Additive manufacturing

The layers correspond to the horizontal “sections” of a 3D CAD image of the body to be manufactured. A control program is then calculated from these layers, which directs a laser beam with high precision over these cuts in order to fuse the material over their entire surface. adheres to the previous layer and solidifies as the material coo

A so-called slicer translates a 3D design of a product into a layer-by-layer print file. This indicates for each layer for each point whether or not to print there. AM is thus the 3D variant of the well-known (inkjet) 2D printing.