Figure 1
From: A Sensory Material Approach for Reducing Variability in Additively Manufactured Metal Parts
Schematic illustrations of the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process, (a) showing the consolidation of a fully solid part in a layer-by-layer manner, and the consolidation of powder at the melt pool. The schematic in (b) shows the pattern of the laser as it rasters in a hatch pattern. The long axis of the hatches is rotated by 90° with every new layer.
