The technology, called laser sintering, is being employed by Cookson Precious Metals to produce jewellery from computer designs.
Additive manufacturing can also be achieved by a number of other methods, such as selective laser sintering (SLS).
Cookson believes the sintering process, "puts the power in terms of the computer-aided design rather than the bench skills".
The 'toner' used in the laser sintering process is rather more expensive than that found in a laser printer cartridge.
To be accurate, Lima is using a technique known as Electron Beam Melting (EBM) which is more advanced than your basic laser sintering method.
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Laser sintering has been used in other industries for some time.
But Goldsmiths' Robin Kyte says the laser-sintering technique has its drawbacks.
The pair had the prosthetic made with a laser sintering process.
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Ott immediately thought of an additive manufacturing process called direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) that she had encountered in her work at a major aerospace company.
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Can we say that a high-tech process like 3D printing, or laser cutting, or laser sintering, or pick any new tech, is not manufacturing for a new age?
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EOS, a German supplier of laser-sintering 3D printers, says they are already being used to make plastic and metal production parts by carmakers, aerospace firms and consumer-products companies.
Similar technology, in the service of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's sintering hallucinatory cuirasses of solidified computer math, yields splendid contemporary examples of that Schlemmerian impulse, as do the animatronic garments of designer Hussein Chalayan, mediated wearable installations that they are.
Jumping up a bit bigger than one or two machines, Morris Technologies (Cincinnati, Ohio), for example, owns and operates 20 direct metal laser sintering machines, in addition to other rapid prototyping technologies, to manufacture and prototype products for a range of industries including aerospace and medical.
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