Talk:Direct metal laser sintering

How is Direct Metal Laser Sintering different from Selective Laser Sintering? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.236.0 (talk) 23:23, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I suspect there is no significant difference. Further discussion at Talk:selective laser sintering. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 15:36, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the only difference is that SLS uses coated powders in which I assume the coating is what bonds them? Whereas DMLS uses uncoated metal powders which may require more powerful lasers (esp. if the coating is opaque and absorbs laser light unlike reflective metal). --72.190.35.23 (talk) 05:52, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Proposed merger
I propose Laser sintering of gold be merged either with this article, or with Selective laser sintering if this article is itself merged with that one.

Really I think, unless it's fundamentally different (or at least uses different hardware!), it should be considered an application of DMLS/SLS, which has many distinct and important social ramifications from the use of DMLS with other metals I'm sure! But applications of 3D printing have this level of distinct ramification in all fields it touches (probably not goldsmithing fundamentally moreso than others).

--72.190.35.23 (talk) 06:04, 2 May 2015 (UTC)