GE Additive’s New One Cubic Meter ATLAS Metal AM System to Be Presented at Formnext 3D Printer Hardware
Additive machines fuse together fine layers of powdered metal with a laser beam and print three-dimensional objects directly from a computer file. With few limits on the final shape, the method gives engineers new freedoms and eliminates the need for factories filled with specialized machines or expensive tooling. “This is an engineer’s dream,” Ehteshami says.