Additive Manufacturing technologies

Additive Manufacturing technologies create parts layer by layer. Thereby, lots of benefits are offered.
Especially extended design freedoms provide new potentials for the design of technical parts. To make
these benefits accessible to different user groups, design rules for Additive Manufacturing were
developed within the project ‘‘Direct Manufacturing Design Rules’’. Therefore a process independent
method was defined first. Next, design rules were developed for Laser Sintering, Laser Melting and Fused
Deposition Modeling. The results were summarized in a design rule catalog and support a suitable design
for Additive Manufacturing.