For some companies working with AM, specificity is key. That means focusing on a niche area of the market in order to face minimal competition. For others, including Croatia’s Medical 3D Design, a more holistic approach can pay dividends. Based just outside of Zagreb, Medical 3D Design is a 3D modeling company with many strings to its bow, offering both 3D modeling services and PolyJet 3D printing services, and targeting both the medical and dental industries. Sometimes less isn’t more.

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According to Josip Rauker, Director of Medical 3D Design, additive manufacturing has allowed the company to do certain things — creating dental surgical guides, for example — that would have been impossible with traditional manufacturing methods. “The main advantage [of AM] is the easy production of nonstandard parts,” he says. “Production of parts that have complex geometries is much easier compared with other production methods.”

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