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Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a process that creates three-dimensional objects by precisely layering materials based on a digital computer-aided design (CAD) model. A 3D printer uses the digital instructions to layer material, eventually generating a new 3D object. Several different modalities for 3D printing are available, with one of the most notable being powder bed fusion for metal AM. In this approach, high-power laser beams are tightly focused and scanned at high rates to melt small (30-50 um diameter) particles to create fully dense metal alloy parts that can range from a few millimeters to 1 meter in size.