Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 9 Issue 5

Slicing procedures in layered manufacturing: a review

Pulak Mohan Pandey, N. Venkata Reddy, Sanjay G. Dhande

Layered manufacturing (LM) or rapid prototyping is a process in which a part is produced using layer‐by‐layer addition of the material. In LM, slicing of the CAD model of a part…

System development of adaptive spraying paths for rapid prototyping

Janus S. Liang, Alan C. Lin

Traditional rapid prototyping (RP) uses one nozzle, with a single‐diameter, to conduct spraying of a RP part. The process is usually time‐consuming and inefficient. To improve the…

Parametric error modeling and software error compensation for rapid prototyping

Kun Tong, E. Amine Lehtihet, Sanjay Joshi

This paper is motivated by the need for a generic approach to evaluate the volumetric accuracy of rapid prototyping (RP) machines. The approach presented in this paper is inspired…

Mechanisms of selective laser sintering and heat transfer in Ti powder

Nikolay K. Tolochko, Maxim K. Arshinov, Andrey V. Gusarov, Victor I. Titov, Tahar Laoui, Ludo Froyen

Coupled metallographic examination and heat transfer numerical simulation are applied to reveal the laser sintering mechanisms of Ti powder of 63‐315 μm particle diameter. A…

Integration of CAD and rapid manufacturing for sand casting optimisation

Alain Bernard, Jean‐Charles Delplace, Nicolas Perry, Serge Gabriel

In order to reduce the time and costs of the products development in the sand casting process, the SMC Colombier Fontaine company has carried out a study based on tooling…

The production of copper parts using DMLR

S.R. Pogson, P. Fox, C.J. Sutcliffe, W. O’Neill

The relationship between the major process variables (laser power, laser scan speed, scan length, beam overlap and Q‐switch pulse frequency) of direct metal laser re‐melting and…

A comparative evaluation of industrial design models produced using rapid prototyping and workshop‐based fabrication techniques

Mark A. Evans, R. Ian Campbell

This paper discusses a research programme in which the 3D computer aided industrial design geometry for a consumer product was translated into appearance models using the…