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6moExcellent article, and it highlights a really critical aspect of how to be successful with AM; acknowledging that it's just another manufacturing process. Like all other processes, it has its strengths and weaknesses, design constraints and design flexibilities. For many years OEMs did a great disservice to the industry by touting AM as a magical tool that could instantly produce any geometry imaginable in any material you could dream of. Now as we take a more grounded approach to AM we have to take time with each customer to dispel this mythos; to convey where the limits of the technology are and how we can leverage its strengths. Customers invariably come in with parts designed with one particular manufacturing process in mind (CNC Machining, Casting, Forging, etc) with the hopes of just printing it as is. When customers are able to be flexible with the design itself, and allow for optimization for this new process, that is where we see the biggest wins in Additive.