Be Alert and Always Inert - The importance of an inert environment with Metal 3D Printing

PADT's Dr. Dhruv Bhate shares what he has learned as we have brought our first metal additive manufacturing (3D Printing) machine on line. The video stresses the importance of keeping an inert environment to keep part quality and to ensure a safe operating environment. Our Concept Laser Metal 3D Printer uses high powered lasers to melt metal powder one layer at a time to build 3D Parts. This process produces soot that is highly flammable.

Dhruv shows the process we use to break the part from the machine, clean the chamber of soot, and replace the filter that captures the soot.