{"id":216552,"date":"2017-06-22T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T07:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=216552"},"modified":"2017-06-22T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T07:38:53","slug":"ge-building-the-worlds-largest-laser-powered-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/216552-ge-building-the-worlds-largest-laser-powered-3d-printer.html","title":{"rendered":"GE building the world&#8217;s largest laser-powered 3D printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/ge-building-worlds-largest-additive-machine-3d-printing-metals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GE Additive<\/strong><\/a>, a new GE 3D printing business, is developing the world\u2019s largest laser-powered 3D printer.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D printer will produce parts from metal powder which can fit inside a cube with 1-metre sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe machine will 3D print aviation parts suitable for making jet engine structural components and parts for single-aisle aircraft,\u201d said Mohammad Ehteshami, VP of GE Additive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will also be applicable for manufacturers in the automotive, power, and oil and gas industries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 3D printer fuses fine layers of powdered metal with a laser beam and prints three-dimensional objects from a computer file.<\/p>\n<p>With few limits on the final shape, the method gives engineers new freedoms and eliminates the need for factories filled with specialised machines.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P65XSVVEfrk\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/208722-3d-printing-a-building.html\">3D printing a building<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GE Additive is developing the world\u2019s largest laser-powered 3D printer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17542,44042],"class_list":["post-216552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-3d-printing","tag-ge-additive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216596,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216552\/revisions\/216596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}