Multi-Material Processing By Lens

metallic components using computer aided design (CAD) solid models. [ 1-41 Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENSm) is one such technique [5-71 being developed at Sandia to fabricate high strength, near net shape metallic components. In the past two years a variety of components have been fabricated using LENSm for applications ranging from prototype parts to injection mold tooling. [SI During the past few years, solid fieeform fabrication has evolved into direct fabrication of