Techno

logy

(rapid prototyping technologies)

PhD Candidate,
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering,
The University of New South Wales, Australia
viboon@viboon.org

1,000

(prototype)



(aesthetic) (ergonomics)



CAD Software

Computer Graphic

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Computer Graphic







(designer) (expert
user)

Handheld Devices

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Conceptual Prototype












Functional Prototype

Rapid
Prototyping (RP)

3D CAD Model Rapid
Prototyping
Rapid Prototyping

3 CAD
Model

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RP


Rapid
Prototyping Processes 4
(photopolymerization)
(sintering/bonding) (layer laminate manufacturing)
(extrusion processes)
1. (photopolymerization)

RP
Photopolymerization Stereolithography Apparatus (SLA)
3D Systems
Chuck Hull
SLA
Stereolithography SLA
..2523
Stereolithography

Ultraviolet (UV) UV Lasers

300

Platform UV


Support
Support
UV

Laser

Movable
Mirror
Support
Resin

Cured Resin
Layers
Movable
Substrate

1 Stereolithography Apparatus (SLA)[1]

SLA
Micro-stereolithography MicroTEC

PolyJet Objet Platform
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UV

SLA

3
Platform
Sintering



10
1 10
0.15
Sintering

Stereolithography
Selective Laser
Sintering (SLS) 3D Systems DTM
Optics and
X-Y Positioning
Device

2 PolyJet

2.
(sintering/ bonding)
Photopolymerization


100

Laser

Material Hopper

Re-coater
Platform

Scanning Part
Built Component

3 Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)[2]

- Three Dimensional Printing (3DP)
Z Corporation 3D
Printing Inkjet
Platform

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Inkjet

Stereolithography
Concept Prototype Functional Prototype
3. (layer laminate manufacturing)

Laminated
Object Manufacturing (LOM) Cubic Technologies
Platform


Optics and
X-Y Positioning
Device
Layer Outline &
Crosshatch

Part Block

Laser

Laminating
Roller

Rolled Sheet
Material

4. (extrusion
processes)






Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Stratasys
Model Under
Construction

Heated
Dispensing
Nozzles

Platform

4 Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM)[2]

Layer Milling
Process (LMP) Zimmermann

Platform
Build
Filament

Support
Filament
5 Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)[2]

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SLA

ABS Polycarbonate
Functional
Prototype

Inkjet

Multijet Modeling (MJM) 3D Systems
PolyJet Objet

Wax

Conceptual Prototype Wax

(precision casting)
Lost-Wax Casting

6 Beethoven FDM

Rapid Prototyping 4




RP


Rapid Prototyping
Techno
logy

1. Pham, D.T. and Gault, R.S. (1998). A Comparison of Rapid

Prototyping Technologies. International Journal of Machine Tools and
Manufacture, 38, 1257-1287.
2. Upcraft, S. and Fletcher, R. (2003). The Rapid Prototyping
Technologies. Assembly Automation, 23(4), 318-330.

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