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The result is definitely not crystalline, in fact it is better compared with regular sintered materials.

Normally they are CNC'd from aluminum (or 'tooling gel') - whereas smaller run items can be laser sintered.

Modern lathe bits are ceramic or sintered metal, so it should be possible to use other materials.

The main issues with selective laser sintered titanium as a manufacturing process are speed and surface finish.

Yes… but more often something like laser-sintered metal printing, which is not going to melt when hot.

After close examination of the metal, they'd discover it was a sintering process, because sintered metal has a recognizable structure.

Note: Boeing uses laser sintered parts in their new Dreamliner; this isn't just for prototyping.

The battery pack cases could be SLS assembled (laser sintered) to exacting specifications.

To make things of platinum, they sintered platinum powder and nuggets with gold.

A fine metal powder is sintered on each layer using a laser.

The metal parts that can be made using this process are 'sintered', which is an expensive way of saying that they consist of compressed powder.

I use SLA 3D printing almost weekly for rapid prototyping (in the past I've used powder sintered 3D printing as well).

Sintered metals are never going to have the same properties that cast, forged, and/or welded metals have.

Sintered parts are everywhere, especially gears.