I think the following 3 tips are useful:
1.The materials:plastic such as ABS\PC\nylon\ultem,metal such as stainless steel,Ti alloy,and composit materials;
2.The principle:FDM,SLS,use laser or use hot tip;
3.Different purposes:part made for design,for function test,end-use part.
there seem some problem with the picture,so I upload it again here.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=b4c27c2f-8ba2-4d58-923b-d5c760cb6b6c&file=1.PNG
We recently receive a client's drawing,I simplified it as the following picture in attachment.
It has some suspending features,use 2000 series aluminum alloy,hard to weld as I know,so can such a structure be tooled...
