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7 Mistakes You’re Making with DfAM (and How to Fix Them) 7 Mistakes You’re Making with DfAM (and How to Fix Them)

7 Mistakes You’re Making with DfAM (and How to Fix Them)

Practical DfAM guidelines for mechanical design engineers using MJF and SLS for plastic parts.

Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) is often touted as a "limitless" frontier. For mechanical design engineers transitioning from traditional subtractive manufacturing or injection molding, the freedom to create complex lattices and internal channels feels like a superpower. However, industrial 3D printing: specifically powder bed fusion technologies like Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS): comes with its own set of rigid physical constraints.

7 Mistakes You’re Making with Surface Finish Specs for 3D Printed Parts 7 Mistakes You’re Making with Surface Finish Specs for 3D Printed Parts

7 Mistakes You’re Making with Surface Finish Specs for 3D Printed Parts

You’ve spent weeks perfecting the geometry of your part. The FEA looks solid, the tolerances are tight, and the assembly is ready for a production run. But then the parts arrive from the lab or a service provider, and they don't look: or feel: the way you expected. The surface is grainy, the o-ring groove is leaky, or the "smooth" face is covered in stair-steps.

Goodbye old friend!

Saying farewell to one of our early aerospace projects.

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