WORKSHOP: DFM for Additive Manufacturing

Ever wonder whether utilizing Additive Manufacturing for an application is the best solution for your business? Are you being asked to explore additive options but don’t know how to find the applications that are a good fit for your industry? Maybe you see an excellent opportunity to utilize additive manufacturing but think the design needs to be fully topology optimized to benefit from the process.

This discussion will tackle these questions by discussing an application selection method that can help determine when additive makes sense for an application and some basic design principles.

After participating in this workshop, you will have:

• an understanding of an easy thought process to help choose applications
• design tips for easy conversion of designs to additive manufacturing or to utilize for new designs