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SLM 500 (photo: Nikon SLM Solutions)
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SLM 500

Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Nikon SLM Solutions · Price on request

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Build volume
500 × 280 × 365 mm
X × Y × Z
Layer thickness
20–90 µm
Lasers
4 × 700 W
Materials
4 named
Aheadd® CP1, AlSi10Mg, 326L
Build rate
345 cm³/h
List price
On request
X 500Y 280Z 365

Build volume

51.1 LMedium

500 × 280 × 365 mm · 28 cans of 330 ml would stand on the plate

Medium — a larger envelope than 61% of the 132 machines here, and than 55% of the 56 powder bed fusion machines.

To scale beside a 330 ml can; drag to orbit. Small, medium and large are the thirds of the catalogue's machines with a stated envelope.

Specifications · 19 cited values

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (Powder bed fusion)

Build envelope

Build size X
500 mm
Build size Y
280 mm
Build size Z
365 mm
Platform shape
rectangular

Resolution

Layer thickness, minimum
20 µm
Layer thickness, maximum
90 µm
Minimum feature size
150 µm

Energy source

Lasers
4
Laser power
700 W
Beam diameter
115 µm
Scan speed
10,000 mm/s

Atmosphere and thermal

Inert gas
argon

Throughput

Build rate
345 cm³/h

Materials

Material system
open

Physical

Footprint, length
6,080 mm
Footprint, width
2,530 mm
Footprint, height
2,620 mm

System

Power supply
400 Volt 3NPE, 63 A, 50/60 Hz, 8-5.5 kW
Power consumption
8 kW

Values read from the manufacturer's page on 2026-10-23 by an extraction model; each value links to the sentence it came from. Not yet reviewed by a person. How we check

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