Using a 100 W fiber laser cutter, he cut different internal ... much benefit such a thin piece of metal offered, even when it was directly embedded into the print during a pause.

To make small shapes in metal, 3D printing is a far quicker method compared to metal cutting. The latter is a subtractive process, the book Introduction to Plastics Engineering (2018) explains ...

I’ve always thought that there are three things you can do with metal: cut it, bend it ... I had heard that you could 3D-print wax patterns instead of carving them by hand, but the best machine ...