The electron beam powder bed fusion (PBF-EB) is limitedly used to manufacture complex structures such as delicate lattices. Nickel titanium (NiTi) has been chosen for fabricating the lattice structure due to its widely utilization in the biomedical sector. However, issues may arise when manufacturing angled trusses while the dimensional inaccuracy increased with the increasing of the angle between the truss member and the vertical build direction. Therefore, two different scan strategies: spot melting and linear melting were used to manufacture the lattice structures respectively to compare the dimensional accuracy of different structures. This investigation highlights that linear melting is prone to maintain the geometrical accuracy of line-based structure with a limited influence from the scan speed while the spot melting is more capable of manufacturing the point-based structure with a higher geometrical resolution.
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