“…As for the combination of power and scanning speed values, it was based on previous work carried out by the group (Sousa, 2019;Sousa et al, 2020), which, in turn, are based on the literature and on preliminary tests, whose characteristics of the observed deposits are good quality, concerning geometry and defects absence. The main consulted authors are listed below: Borges et al (2010), Hemmati et al (2011Hemmati et al ( , 2012Hemmati et al ( , 2013Hemmati et al ( , 2014, Ghabchi et al (2013), Chen et al (2015), Kaiming et al (2016), Stanciu et al (2016), Weng et al (2016) and Deschuyteneer et al (2017). Aspects of their respective works will be discussed together with the results presented throughout this paper (topic 3.…”