(sanford morton) "this printer is what's calledan slm printer. slm stands for selective laser melting. what that means is there's a high-poweredlaser in the top of the device up in here that's actually going to shine down on thisbed. and when it lights this bed up, it's such high energy density that it actuallymelts metal powder in a fine layer to the plate that you see right here. so what will happen is we have this swiperright here.
what is 3d metal printing,so you'll have a build plate in the center,you have two buckets of what's basically extremely fine titanium powder and that titanium powderwill get swept across this main build area
by the swiper and so as you iterate that thousandsand thousands of times you'll end up ultimately with a 3d part that has structural propertiessimilar to a solid piece of titanium."
