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chine and inspect the often ir-
regular parts possible through
3D printing is on the horizon.
As humans
More intentional materi- become
al usage enabled by AM. more ac-
3D printing allows for material customed to
conservation by encouraging the generative
use of material only where it is designed
necessary, but it also increasing- and topology
ly supports the use of gradients optimized
and the joining of different mate- forms, the
rials. These capabilities will chal- door will
lenge the notion that one part Source: Magic Wand Media open to
increasingly
should be made of a single mate- complex,
rial and enable more innovative asymmet-
designs and better conservation ric, and
of high-value materials. Expand- jection moulding, machining, or yet imagined. The past year optimized
ing options for sustainable mate- some other conventional meth- alone has revealed a handful of objects,
rials from bio-based or recycled od. Not so with additive manu- unexpected means of con- whether they
sources will also support this ma- facturing; without tooling, the structing parts layer by layer; be aerospace
terial intentionality. design of the product can con- there's no telling what the next brackets,
tinue to change even as the ten might add to the available automo-
Inventors as a new cate- item goes into production — and options. 3D printing methods tive engine
gory of manufacturers. the inventor can continue to be that today are only in develop- components,
There is a hard line today be- involved, even to be the manu- ment, only the seed of an idea or consumer
products.
tween product development facturer through 3D printing. or perhaps not even in exis-
and manufacturing, where de- tence at all could prove to be
sign and ideation must stop to New kinds of 3D print- the next important advance in
enable production through in- ing that we have not AM’s next decade.

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