As an aside, the most common aluminium alloy for DMLS 3D printing is ‘AlSi10Mg’, which is very similar to the alloy ORNL describes, but with 0.25-0.45% of magnesium. As printed this achieves ...

Wanting to produce 3D printed objects out of metal, and finding that direct metal laser sintering machines were still out of reach of reason, he set out to find a different way.