Velo 3D Glossary

Designing for manufacturability with 3D printers is an art, science, and talent. This additive design approach, unlike traditional manufacturing, allows engineers to generate more complicated geometries and production parts while reducing weight and material usage.

Design for additive manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing

is an Al-Si-Mg alloy originally developed for castings. It is a lightweight, corrosion resistant alloy with high strength and toughness and excellent thermal conductivity. It is typically used for heat transfer and structural applications in the defense and automotive industries.

Aluminum F357

is a United States regulatory regime to restrict and control the export of defense and military related technologies to safeguard U.S. national security and further U.S. foreign policy objectives. [Wikipedia]

International Traffic in Arms Regulations

is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing. [Wikipedia]

Computer-aided design

is a file format native to the stereolithography CAD software created by 3D Systems.

STereoLithography

is the process of a laser beam to melt and fuse material powder together.

Laser powder bed fusion printer

is part of a family of austenitic nickel-chromium-based superalloys. IN718 is commonly used for cryogenic storage tanks, downhole shafts and wellhead parts.

Inconel IN718

HASTELLOY® C22, often known as alloy C22, is an austenitic nickel-chromium-molybdenum-tungsten alloy with improved pitting, crevice corrosion, and stress corrosion cracking resistance.

HASTELLOY® C22

is a nickel-based alloy with outstanding strength and oxidation resistance up to 2200 degrees Fahrenheit. In petrochemical applications, it has also been discovered to be particularly resistant to stress-corrosion cracking. The alloy offers outstanding forming and welding properties.

HASTELLOY® X

is a nickel-based superalloy that possesses high strength properties and resistance to elevated temperatures. It also demonstrates remarkable protection against corrosion and oxidation. [Wikipedia]

Inconel® 625

is a way of preventing mistakes and defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering products or services to customers; which ISO 9000 defines as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled". [Wikipedia]

Quality Assurance

When compared to the conventional Ti64 alloy, is a Ti6Al4V alloy with a reduced quantity of oxygen and iron. The material is well-known for its superior mechanical qualities, which include a low density, high strength, and corrosion resistance.

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