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Large-Format AM Needs “First-Time-Right” or It Doesn’t Scale
Large-format pellet printing is where hobby-era trial-and-error goes to die.
Key points
- First-time-right printing (no retries, no manual tuning)
- 30% reduction in warping and 83% reduction in deformation
- 91% faster 3D print time via intelligent layer-speed optimization
- Under the hood, Helio uses cloud-based thermal simulation + optimization to predict and maintain workable thermal conditions during the 3D print—then adjusts the process accordingly.
- The Helio Dashboard is the front door for LFAM users: upload G-code, simulate, optimize, review results, and track usage—purpose-built for pellet systems.
- And if you’re building automation around this (3D print farms, production pipelines, CI checks on toolpaths), Helio exposes a GraphQL API specifically for integrating simulation/optimization into custom slicers and workflows.
Call to action
If your LFAM operation still relies on “experienced operators” to babysit thermal outcomes, you don’t have a process—you have a craft bottleneck. Put physics in the loop and scale like manufacturing.