Everything you Need to know about World's Biggest Laser-Powered 3D Printer
A report in April month of this year states that Mohammad Ehteshami, the Vice President and General Manager of GE Additive revealed that the firm has planned to launch a new metal 3D printer and had started working on the same almost before two years from now. Now on Wednesday, the General Electric (GE) has announced that it is bringing the world's largest laser-powered 3D printer. It is the metal additive manufacturing machine having a build volume of 1 meter cubed (1,000 mm³) and named as ‘ATLAS’ by the firm. To develop ‘ATLAS’, GE has included the laser expertise of the German company and presently running Laser’s concept along with a build envelope of 800 x 400 x 500 mm. The project has been under development for the past two years. Unlike other commercial and consumer 3D printers, this printer make use of metals like titanium, aluminum and other rather using plastics, resins, and filaments to print and can print up to one meter. It could print an entire engin...