[rawfan]

Those industrial titanium powder printers are not comparable at all what you know, I assume. They‘re used at scale to produce airplane parts. Usually also utilising bionic structures, e.g. to make brackets that are much lighter and sturdier, than their conventional counterparts.

[gimmeThaBeet]

Yeah most of what I do is in SLS, I don't really know what the nuances to how the sintered metal powder ones behave vs polyamide etc.

One of the bits SLS can struggle with is long plane or ribbon-like objects. And then as you get thin enough, the surface finish starts being a non-trivial % of the overall thickness in that area. Just was curious how sensitive the strength is to uncertainty, and as a second part of the overall structure aids it by making ribs to mitigate any weirdness in the flat bit.