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The rapid prototyping (RP) industry is comprised of a progression of innovations containing computerized methods that can rapidly manufacture any given three-dimensional article with the end goal of testing the structure, fit, and capacity of a configuration(Billiet, Vandenhaute et al. 2012). As a layer-based added substance producing system, Rapid Prototyping gives an architect the ability to manufacture any possible geometry.
Rapid prototyping forms, when all is said in done, start with a three-dimensional computer aided model of the part to be made. This computerized representation of the part is cut into virtual layers by computer aided design (CAD). Every layer, speaking to a cross-segment of the sought part, is sent to the rapid prototyping machine where it is based upon the past layer (Peltola). This methodology, assembling the part layer-by-layer starting from the earliest stage, is rehashed until the part is finished as indicated in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Additive fabrication process of rapid prototyping
Rapid prototyping frameworks can deliver models from 3D CAD information, CT and MRI checks, and 3D digitizing frameworks (Trevor Boehm). Utilizing an added substance approach, rapid prototyping frameworks join fluid, powder or sheet materials to shape physical protests on a layer by layer premise. Rapid prototyping machines process plastic, paper, artistic, metal and composite materials from flimsy, level cross areas of computer aided models (Lan, 2009).
This report gives a far reaching diagram of rapid prototyping techniques grouped into three principle gatherings in light of the kind of material used to manufacture a 3D model (Table 1):
Table 1. Classifications of rapid manufacturing processes
Rapid Manufacturing Technologies |
Liquid Based Process | Powder Based Process | Solid/Foil Based Process |
Stereolithography Jetting System Direct Light Processing Technology High Viscosity Jetting The MAPLE Process | Selective laser sintering --Polymers --Ceramics & metals Direct Metal Laser Sintering Three-Dimensional Printing Fused Metal Deposition System Electron Beam Melting Selective Laser Melting Selective Masking Sintering Selective Inhibitation Sintering Electro-Photographic Layered Manufacturing High Speed Sintering | Fused Deposition Modeling Laminated Object Manufacturing or Sheet Stacking Technology |