3D printed bike

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sohi

Is there any shrinkage with printed metal like there is with plastics?

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Tijmen in reply to @sohi

I believe the problem is warping rather than shrinking. A Mech Eng PhD friend of mine worked on algorithms to compensate for it.

However, going by the Shapeways support forum it’s mainly a problem with large and thin parts.

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Rik_Van_Looy in reply to @Tijmen

Got there before me!
In my experience of working with metal printed parts I noticed that part orientation with the powder bed seems to make a bit of a difference in dimensional accuracy -( I was making small rotating parts)

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