parts the gas entrained powder material exits from the multiple beam deposition apparatus from a series of nozzles located in the base of the multiple beam deposition apparatus in a similar fashion the powdered material from the second powder feeding apparatus lob is separated into two approximately equal parts and directed out of the multiple beam deposition apparatus from the outline powder nozzles 48 i j the volume of powder output from the filler powder nozzles and the outline powder nozzles is controlled to be equivalent by monitoring the volumetric powder flow out of the two powder feeding apparatus 10 a b referring to fig4 each of the filler powder nozzles 48 a h is located within the multiple beam deposition apparatus such that the powder stream out of one filler powder nozzle interacts with the powder stream from a second filler powder nozzle to create a plane of convergence 22 this plane of convergence 22 is similar to the focal plane of one of the focused laser beams 50 from the multiple beam deposition apparatus deposition of the powdered material occurs in a plane u00b1 0 5 inches above or below his plane of convergence 22 referring to the multiple beam deposition apparatus in the description section each of the filler powder nozzles 48 a d interacts with only one other filler powder nozzle 48 e.