Designing for Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study in the Professional Sports Equipment Field

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the possibilities available as well as the challenge to be faced when designing for metal additive manufacturing through the description of an application of the Selective Laser Melting technology within the professional sports equipment field. We describe the redesign activity performed on the cam system of a compound bow, starting from the analysis of the functional, manufacturing and assembly constraints till the strategies applied to guarantee the printability of the object. This activity has thus provided the opportunity to analyse the difficulties currently encountered by practitioners when designing for additive manufacturing due to the lack of integrated design approaches and the high number of aspects that need to be simultaneously taken into account when performing design choices.

• Publication year

  2017

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  Procedia Manufacturing

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  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1016/J.PROMFG.2017.07.288
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