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The benefits and drawbacks of Additive Manufacturing Technologies enable designers to think beyond traditional design for manufacture and assembly constraints. AM has unique geometric, material, and customization benefits not provided by other production techniques. Likewise, AM has need for supports, typically produces anisotropic properties, and may require considerable post-processing. These and other benefits and drawbacks of AM have led to an increased emphasis on training designers to Design for Additive Manufacturing. In this chapter, we will revisit some of the concepts from prior chapters and introduce new concepts and ways of thinking to help designers take advantage of AM without falling into design pitfalls.

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    Design for manufacturing is typically abbreviated DFM, whereas design for manufacture and assembly is typically abbreviated as DFMA. To avoid confusion with the abbreviation for design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) we have utilized the shorter abbreviation DFM to encompass both design for manufacture and design for assembly.

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  1. Department of Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Ian Gibson

  2. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    David Rosen

  3. ANSYS, Park City, UT, USA

    Brent Stucker

  4. Deakin University, Armstrong Creek, VIC, Australia

    Mahyar Khorasani

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Gibson, I., Rosen, D., Stucker, B., Khorasani, M. (2021). Design for Additive Manufacturing. In: Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56127-7_19

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