One of the advantages of additive manufacturing (AM) is the ability to create fine-featured high-precision shapes, and many designers have taken advantage of this and added lattice or cellular structures to their components. These structures can extend the capabilities of the part beyond what’s possible using traditional manufacturing methods. Let’s explain the terminology AM engineers use when referring to lattice structures.

Multi-functional lattice structures utilizing metamaterials have the potential to radically change the future of products that we use in our daily lives and the way in which industries like aerospace and the medical field operate. There are many benefits to 3D-printed metamaterials that go way beyond common design for additive manufacturing (AM) techniques. Let’s look at the benefits of this innovative geometric design phenomenon.

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