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Hybrid Manufacturing Workflows: Integrating Industrial 3D Printing with Precision Subtractive Finishing

Hybrid Manufacturing Workflows: Integrating Industrial 3D Printing with Precision Subtractive Finishing

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• Discover how combining industrial 3D printing, 5-axis CNC post-processing, and vacuum casting bridge tooling optimizes mechanical tolerances and accelerates lead times. Metal AM produces complex geometries that no subtractive process can match, but it does not produce finished parts. The real engineering challenge begins after the build plate comes out of the machine. Industrial 3D…

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Discover how combining industrial 3D printing, 5-axis CNC post-processing, and vacuum casting bridge tooling optimizes mechanical tolerances and accelerates lead times.

Metal AM produces complex geometries that no subtractive process can match, but it does not produce finished parts. The real engineering challenge begins after the build plate comes out of the machine.

Industrial 3D printing services provider LS Manufacturing has built its operation around that fact. The manufacturer runs SLS, SLA, and DMLS 3D printing alongside 5-axis CNC machining, vacuum casting, and certified surface finishing.

Gloria Wu, Senior Manufacturing Solutions Architect at LS Manufacturing, and her engineering team work with international OEMs and hardware developers across all of these stages.

But what mak

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