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Live Parts™
Live Parts™ makes it easy to go from complex constraints and loading conditions to optimized, manufacturing-ready models in a matter of minutes.
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Metal 3D printing for machine design
Additive manufacturing dramatically simplifies the process of creating custom parts. Because it doesn’t rely on tooling or fixturing, 3D printing often allows users to print parts faster and at lower costs than machining.
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Metal 3D printing for service bureaus & machine shops
Additive manufacturing allows service bureaus to extend the benefits of metal 3D printing - such as assembly consolidation, new levels of geometric freedom, and features like overhangs and internal channels - to their customers.
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Metal 3D printing for education
Desktop Metal systems are designed for accessibility, making it easy and affordable for colleges and universities to invest in technology
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Metal 3D printing for heavy industry
Heavy industry is a unique sector that generally requires huge amounts of capital investment in producing low quantities of large machinery. Examples include chemical processing, oil & gas, shipbuilding, railroads, and mining.
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Metal 3D printing for the automotive industry
One of the largest and most important industries for metal parts manufacturing, the automotive industry annually spends trillions producing parts across the manufacturing lifecycle.
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Metal 3D printing for manufacturing tooling
Tooling is a general term for components used in various manufacturing processes—including machining, injection molding, extrusion, stamping, casting, as well as workholding jigs, fixtures, and end of arm tooling.
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Introduction to the Studio System
This five-part video series explains the step-by-step process of the only office-friendly metal 3D printing system in the world.
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3D printed flexures
3D printing offers the design flexibility required to produce high-quality metal flexures—enabling targeted flexibility for compliance in specific degrees of freedom.
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Metal 3D printing for jigs & fixtures
Essential to lean manufacturing, the production of custom jigs and fixtures is often deprioritized against a long list of manufacturing needs. In-house metal 3D printing enables the rapid production of a jig or fixture that is optimized for a specific need.
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Metal 3D printing for tooling
The process of tool-making can be tedious due to high tolerance requirements, complex geometries, and materials that are difficult to machine. In-house metal 3D printing enables tool-makers to meet these challenges with greater efficiency.
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Key Applications for metal 3d printing on the Studio System
An overview of the Studio System for functional prototyping, jigs and fixtures, tooling, and low volume production.
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These 4 simple solutions can help make the manufacturing industry more sustainable
The way we make things is changing. New manufacturing technologies like 3D printing offer benefits to both companies and consumers - but can also help usher in a cleaner, more sustainable world.
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2019 year in review: looking back, and ahead
As 2019 drew to a close, Desktop Metal CEO Ric Fulop paused to both look back on the highlights of the year that was, and ahead, to the future of additive manufacturing in the coming decades.
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Deep Dive: Bound Metal Deposition (BMD)
BMD leverages the most widely-used plastic 3D printing method (FFF) and the high-quality, well-studied alloys found in MIM
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