Designing of an innovative extrusion system for metallic parts made by desktop 3D printing method

Abstract

Desktop 3D Printing for metallic parts is a new direction and represents one of the latest trends within the Additive Manufacturing domain, being given and defined mainly by the requirements of the industrial companies in terms of materials and products that needs to be rapidly delivered on the market. The article presents an innovative solution that was developed at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in this domain, for the Rapid Product Development of Parts made by metal extrusion.