Other fabrication processes

• Micro-EDM, stereo-photolithography, laser micromachining...

• Very flexible… but in general difficult to get batch processing!

• For prototyping or specific element fabrication (after all we still use lathe to produce 106 cars!)

Laser

micromachining

Steel 3-D structures with micro-EDM

(© Optima-tion 1999)

(© IMM 1998)

Micro-stereo lithography

(© MicroTEC 1998)

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