Titanium 3D Printing
Lightweight, Strong Parts for High-Performance Applications

For years, producing short runs of titanium parts has been prohibitively expensive because of the hardness of the material and the set-up and tooling required. DMLS smashes through this barrier by eliminating these up-front costs. It also enables you to do titanium 3D printing on demand.

Traditional manufacturing techniques like metal casting and CNC machining place limits on what you can create. DMLS enables you to produce titanium parts that are difficult or impossible to achieve with them, such as:

• Internal supports
• Weight-saving lattice wall sections
• Conformal cooling channels
• Undercuts
• Draft angles
• Internal cavities
• Varying wall thickness

Titanium 3D printing with DMLS empowers you to iterate and optimize your prototype part designs quickly – without the need for costly tooling. It can also help you bring your new products to market faster, at a minimal cost.

Thanks to the design freedom that DMLS enables, you can consolidate assemblies into a single, printable titanium part that is lighter, less expensive and more reliable. The experienced engineers at Fathom’s titanium 3D printing service can help you explore opportunities for part consolidation.

Need bridge production? You can use Fathom’s titanium 3D printing service to produce several hundred production-quality parts quickly to meet your production needs.

Abrasive Blast (Grit & Ceramic) // Abrasive blasting can remove imperfections, rust and other contaminants from a part’s surface. Abrasive blasting is often used to prepare a part for a coating application. Different abrasive blasting methods include micro-abrasive blasting, bristle blasting, bead blasting, etc. Steel grit, silicon carbide, pumice and other abrasives are used for abrasive blasting.

Shot Peen // Shot peening can enhance a part’s strength and reduce its stress profile. During shot peening, the part is hit with multiple shots that leave deformities on the part’s surface. The process adds a compressive stressed layer.

Optical Polish // Optical polishing is cost-effective and provides a brilliant finish. Optical polishing creates a micro-finish or superfinish on a part’s surface in preparation for further processing. The optical polishing process is best for projects with geometries in low quantities that are not tolerance dependent.

Electrochemical Polishing // Electrochemical polishing produces a mirror-like finish on metal parts. Electrochemical polishing can also be used to prepare a part of further finishing. The part is placed in an electrolytic solution with a copper or lead cathode during the process. The electric current moves through the solution, smoothing the part’s surface.

Abrasive Flow Machining // Abrasive flow machining can deburr and polish a part. During abrasive flow machining, a chemically inactive media works to polish the part and remove unwanted material.

Electroplating // Electroplating adds a metal layer to the outside of a part, increasing its strength and durability. Electroplating dissolves metal in an electrolytic solution and transfers it onto the part’s surface. Some of the most common metals used during electroplating are copper and zinc.

Micro Machining Process (MMP) // Micro machining uses great technical precision to preserve the geometries of a part while adding a mirror-like finish. During MMP, the part is mapped by a profilometer to generate a roughness profile. The component is then transitioned to the MMP envelope, where micro-milling cutters polish the part.

CNC Finishing/Machining // CNC finishing or machining adds wear resistance, metal conductivity, strength, rust resistance, etc. CNC finishing can improve a part’s appearance and prepare it for a final coating. Finishing may involve powder coating, bead blasting, passivation and anodizing.