At Formnext 2023, the TCT content material workforce requested the query: “Is Design for Additive Manufacturing an enabler or a barrier?” The query garnered some fascinating solutions, with folks on each side of the fence feeling strongly about their opinion, and a few believing it’s a matter of time till instructing DfAM turns into the norm. This is what they needed to say.
Andrew Sink – Senior Purposes Engineer, Carbon
“Constraints breed creativity, and 3D printing is a extremely highly effective device, however its not essentially limitless, like there are nonetheless finest practices. I feel if used correctly, I do suppose its an enabler, I feel understanding what you’ll be able to and might’t do, it’s a robust strategy to perceive what’s going to be a profit.”
Cora Leibig – Founder and CEO, Chromatic 3D Supplies
“Design for AM is certainly each an enabler and a barrier, largely it’s a barrier.”
Alain Dupont – Chief Business Officer, GE Additive
“3D printing is an enabler by way of design, and its going to open up a number of doorways sooner or later.”
Monica Smith – Product Line Supervisor Metallic Techniques, EOS
“Full enabler, design for 3D printing.”
Joel Telling – 3D Printing Nerd
“I feel proper now, design for 3D printing isn’t essentially an enabler or a barrier at this second, I feel that it’s simply not popularised inside all the design communities. I feel with 3Dprinting being a really mature business at this level, the flexibility to design for 3D printing is one thing that’s simply going to be a generational factor. I feel as we begin to see extra younger folks go into the design fields, and find out about design for additive or design for 3D printing, I feel when these folks enter the workforce we’ll see a generational swap into designing for 3D printing being the norm, not one thing that as taught as an extra.”
David Moodie – Founder and CEO, Foundry Lab
“Presently I feel it’s a barrier, however it can change into an enabler in time, with simpler entry to CAD, folks understanding CAD.”
Kartik Rao – Strategic Advertising Director, Additive Industries
“Positively an enabler I feel.”
Frederic Larouche – Basic Supervisor, GE Additive
“It’s normally an enabler, however its true, typically it might probably change into an impediment.”
Norbert Gall – Head of Advertising and PR, Lithoz
“It’s positively an enabler. It simply makes extra out of it that you simply normally wouldn’t obtain with out adapting and optimising the designs.”
Francesco Pantaleone – Government Vice President of Enterprise Improvement, Roboze
“It’s actually an enabler and I feel we can’t stress it sufficient with our companions. After all essentially the most circumstances that we get is ‘are you able to print this? And this half has by no means been designed for additive, as a result of we’re offsetting both a metallic half that has been produced through casting or bending or milling, and therefore telling them sure, we are able to produce this half, however we are able to make it higher, we are able to make it extra environment friendly, we are able to make it less expensive and truly in a quicker manner, it all the time triggered the purchasers to search for that chance of redesigning that half whether or not it’s attainable after all.”
