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Project PPT by Ghananand
Project PPT by Ghananand
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DESIGN PROCESS
3. DEVELOPMENT RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY
Traditional Methods
CAD Only
Rapid Prototyping
RP&M Enables the Making of
Physical Models From
Computer-Aided Design
(CAD) Data
ENGINEERING DESIGN AND RAPID PROTOTYPING: COURSE PEDAGOGY
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RAPID PROTOTYPING AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
Year of Inception Technology
1770 - Mechanization
1946 - First Computer
1952 - First Numerical Control (NC) Machine Tool
1960 - First commercial Laser
1961 - First commercial Robot
1963 - First Interactive Graphics System
(Early version of Computer-Aided Design)
1988 - First commercial Rapid Prototyping System
STL file as a prototype data: - 3D Systems developed the STL file format to transfer
geometry to the SLA machine. STL files are faceted representations of data composed
of triangles. The data for the STL file can come from a variety of sources: a solid CAD
model, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and x-ray data, and laser and digitizing arm
scans.
RAPID PROTOTYPING
Piston
Leveling
Powder Roller
Bed
Powder Feeding
System
FDM GENERATED CROSS SECTION
Filament
Heated
FDM Head
Molten
Filament
Supply
SURFACE FINISH
MATERIAL
FUNCTION TESTING
SIZE CAPACITY
The dynamics of markets, technology, and competition have brought changes to
virtually every market sector and have made new product development one of the
most powerful business activities. Product features quality, cost & time to market are
important factors of a manufacturer to remain competitive. RP system offer the
opportunities to make products faster & usually at lower cost rather then using
conventional methods. Since RP can substantially reduce the product development
cycle time, more & more business is taking advantages of speed at which product
design generated by computers can be held, viewed, studied, tested and compared. RP
is rapid development area. Capacities & potential of RP technologies have attached a
wide range of industries to invest in these technologies.
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