Materials for Additive Manufacturing

Material properties include:

• Material Name

• Process: indicates whether the material is used for Printing, SLS, SLA, or DMLS.

• Description

• Manufacturer

• Material Type

• Unit Cost (cost per unit mass)

• Density: density of the material in the final part

• Tapped Density (DMLS and SLS only): tapped density of the material in the powder state, that is, the density of the metal powder in the build chamber just before it is sintered. This is typically about 62.3% of the density of material that has been made solid by sintering.

Note: Each type of material available in the aPriori starting point VPEs is compatible with only one of the four additive manufacturing routings, and may be compatible with only some of the machines for that routing. See Machine Selection for Additive Manufacturing.