AdditiveManufacturingInsight.com August 2015 — 19
The multilaser metal additive
manufacturing machine
uses two lasers in parallel,
which has a direct impact
on exposure times. Image
courtesy of machine maker
Concept Laser.
three- and four-axis machining to fve-axis machin-
ing, we were just learning to work with another
axis, and perhaps a different control system.
Additive manufacturing requires a whole different
mindset, because it is abstract. The sell is different,
part setup is different and training is different."
Selling the process takes much longer and is
more complicated, but Hostetter believes in time
this will ease. She expects the conversation to be
completely different in 10 years as the visibility and
knowledge surrounding the technology increases,
and "everyone is doing it, everyone knows how to
design for it and everyone knows how to utilize the
equipment." With knowledge comes power, but this
will take time.
"With additive manufacturing, we are asking a
generation of people from the machining world to
think abstractly as opposed to mechanically. It is all
about retraining their brains. Mechanical engineer-
ing currently is holes and squares. But additive
manufacturing is ovals, 45 degrees and steeper
angles. Additive allows you to make parts that you
were not inclined to imagine to previously."
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