Customer

Xerox Elem is an additive manufacturing hardware and software solution for polymer and liquid metal 3D printing. It allows customers to integrate additive manufacturing into their operations  and make on-demand manufacturing a reality. 

Name: Xerox

Industry: Additive manufacturing and 3D printing

Location: New York, USA

Challenges

• Generate support structures for 3D liquid metal printing
• Compare face based (global) and slice data-based (local) approaches
• Develop a software tool to preview support structures

Solution

• Implemented a support structure algorithm using a slice data-based (local) approach
• Compared results of slice data-based (local) approach to face based (global) approach
• Developed a tool to preview support structures before 3D printing

Results