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Design principles for Additive Manufacturing |
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Additive Manufacturing design concepts |
New concepts brought by Additive Manufacturing |
Obtaining a digital file of a part |
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AM provides the possibility to create such parts, so far impossible using other manufacturing technologies.
Parts without geometric shapes which cannot be made with traditional tools.
Forms with no exact sides or perfect lines.
Organic shapes are forms from nature.
As there is freedom of design, it is also possible to create organic forms similar to natural forms as trees or even animal forms.
By Studio Under (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons