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I looked it up ExoWiki:
"Understanding the difference between output for milling and selective laser melting (SLM)
If your constructions are to be produced using selective laser melting (SLM, often incorrectly referred to as "laser sintering“),the output data must be a "watertight“ mesh with certain specific characteristics:
No holes or open edges; completely interconnected mesh; No inner surfaces or self-intersections
The figure above shows a sectional view of the junction between connector and pontic, with SLM optimization (left) and without SLM optimization (right).
For milling, it is not mandatory that these special requirements are met. The post-processing for SLM involves time-consuming calculations, which is why the SLM optimizations
(controlled by checkbox [5]) are only performed by default when a laser-melted material is selected in the DentalDB module.
If checkbox [5] is unchecked, resulting bridges cannot be produced using selective laser melting
If checkbox [5] is checked, the resulting output is still suitable for milling
*Even if not using laser melting for production, it is helpful to enable the optimization for laser melting, if you plan to perform additional freeforming on the finished construction. To switch on SLM optimization once you already have saved output files for milling, click "Remove existing merged parts“ [4], then "Restart Merging“ [2].
"Understanding the difference between output for milling and selective laser melting (SLM)
If your constructions are to be produced using selective laser melting (SLM, often incorrectly referred to as "laser sintering“),the output data must be a "watertight“ mesh with certain specific characteristics:
No holes or open edges; completely interconnected mesh; No inner surfaces or self-intersections
The figure above shows a sectional view of the junction between connector and pontic, with SLM optimization (left) and without SLM optimization (right).
For milling, it is not mandatory that these special requirements are met. The post-processing for SLM involves time-consuming calculations, which is why the SLM optimizations
(controlled by checkbox [5]) are only performed by default when a laser-melted material is selected in the DentalDB module.
If checkbox [5] is unchecked, resulting bridges cannot be produced using selective laser melting
If checkbox [5] is checked, the resulting output is still suitable for milling
*Even if not using laser melting for production, it is helpful to enable the optimization for laser melting, if you plan to perform additional freeforming on the finished construction. To switch on SLM optimization once you already have saved output files for milling, click "Remove existing merged parts“ [4], then "Restart Merging“ [2].