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Print
Extrude the near-net part with ZEUS: heaters, materials, pellet feed, cameras, and robot sequences.
Rapid Fusion Print, Scan, and Mill are not three separate products you buy and stitch together. They are one operator platform and one production loop. Print builds the near-net part on ZEUS. Scan captures the as-built geometry with the machine 3D camera, aligns it to CAD, and verifies fit. For Mill, the operator downloads the milling STEP from Scan and uses it in the mill software to finish the part on the robot cell. Fleet ties the same loop together online when you need remote oversight.
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Scan
Capture the real part with Zivid, align CAD to the scan, check the colour maps, download the milling STEP.
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Mill
Download the milling STEP and use it in the mill software to finish the part.
Why They Need Each Other:
Print without Scan/Mill leaves you with an as-printed shape and no confident path to final tolerance.
Scan without Print has nothing physical to capture; without Mill, verified geometry has nowhere to go.
Mill without Scan means no measured position for the finished drawing on the machine, and no check that the print is close enough or has enough material left — higher scrap risk.
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One Operator Platform
Same cell hardware and familiar UI language from extrusion through CNC.
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Closed Geometry Loop
As-printed part → 3D capture → CAD align → milling STEP → machining.
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Verify Before You Cut
Colour maps and stock checks reduce guesswork before spindle time.
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Shop Or Fleet
Run at the kiosk, or open the same Scan / CNC and print cell views through Fleet.
Print — Build The Near-Net Part
ZEUS puts extrusion process control on one screen: zone temperatures, material presets, pellet feed, live cameras, and robot sequences. Operators see whether the cell is heating, ready, or needs attention — without jumping between tools. This is where the physical part begins; everything downstream depends on it.
When the print finishes, the as-printed part becomes the input for Scan — the same cell story continues from extrusion control into capture and verify.
Scan — Capture Reality And Prepare For Mill
Scan is the bridge between Print and Mill. Operators open Scan / CNC from Fleet (or scanner.local offline). Inside a scan job, the order is: capture the part with the Zivid camera on the robot flange, load the as-printed CAD, align it to the scan, then check two colour maps — how close the print is to its own drawing, and whether enough material is left to machine — and download. There are two downloads: aligned STEP (the as-printed drawing moved into robot coordinates) and milling STEP (the finished-part drawing, moved the same way, in robot or bed coordinates).
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Step 1
Align the part to the robot.
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Step 2
Scan it with Zivid.
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Step 3
Check remaining stock or cut targets.
This three-step line is the order on the Scan home screen, not inside a scan job.
The milling STEP download is the Scan-to-Mill handoff. It is still the finished-part drawing; the scan decides where that drawing sits on the machine, and the colour maps show whether the print is close enough and has enough material left. The file is not rebuilt from the measured surface. The operator downloads it and uses it in the mill software.
Mill — Finish In The Mill Software
Mill is where the part is finished. The operator downloads the milling STEP from Scan and uses it in the mill software. Scan does not send a program to the robot; it supplies the finished-part drawing, positioned on the machine using the scan.
The Closed Loop
Print builds the near-net shape under ZEUS process control.
Scan captures what was actually printed, checks fit and stock with colour maps, and provides the milling STEP for download.
Mill finishes the part in the mill software, using the downloaded milling STEP.
Same platform family. Same cell. One loop from pellet to finished part — with Fleet available when teams need the cloud entry point for Scan / CNC and remote print oversight.
Ready To Run The Full Loop?
Book a discovery call to see Print, Scan, and Mill as one production flow — ZEUS extrusion, Zivid capture and verify, and mill finishing on a real cell.