Sentence examples for layer of powder from inspiring English sources
"It was like snapping the ball on ice," Paxton recalled, "and there was a layer of powder over the ice".
At each repetition the build-up bed is lowered by precisely the thickness of the new layer of powder.
The bed is lowered by a fraction of a millimetre and a new layer of powder is spread and rolled.
If Philae drops into a thick black layer of powder, its instruments and solar panels may become coated with dirt, limiting the craft's operations.
Each time the printer passes, another layer of powder is dragged across the bed, 0.1mm thick, until the model is built up – at a rate of 28mm per hour, taking around five hours to build a six-inch figurine.
Brows were brushed out and enhanced with a layer of powder, while lashes received a coat of mascara to complete the youthful look, which went hand-in-hand with the collection, Philips said.
After a layer is finished, the building platform is lowered by an amount equal to the layer thickness, and a new layer of powders is paved.
As Zollinger climbed up, his feet sank several times through a thin surface crust into a warm layer of powder-like sulphur.
The company claims it can do this 20 times faster than is possible by using a laser to melt successive layers of powder spread onto a flat bed in the process called laser sintering, which is now the most common way metal items are 3D-printed.Once the newly built structure has cooled, it can be machined.
Selective laser melting (SLM) is a Rapid Manufacturing technique in which parts of complex shape are produced by selectively melting layers of powder.
During fabrication, a printer head is used to print a liquid on to thin layers of powder following the object's profile as generated by the system computer.
