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Trends and Opportunities of Rapid Prototyping Technologies provides a comprehensive overview of rapid prototyping, also known as 3D printing. It discusses challenges in this domain, such as lack of standardization and certification, as well as the requirements coming from the industrial sector. The book examines existing 3D printing methods and materials as well as their applications, customizations, and process parameters.

Rapid prototyping. --- Desktop automated manufacturing --- Freeform fabrication --- Freeform manufacturing --- Prototyping, Rapid --- RP (Rapid prototyping) --- Additive manufacturing --- Prototypes, Engineering --- Laser sintering

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This special issue on rapid casting solutions comprises original research papers, review papers, technical papers and notes. It is devoted to the development of important topics in rapid casting technology, and has been published as a special issue in order to highlight selected papers submitted to important international conferences and symposia, plus invited papers from prominent researchers. Rapid prototyping has been around for some twenty years, and is widely used in diverse areas: from the building of aesthetic and functional prototypes to the production of tools and moulds for technolog

Rapid prototyping. --- Rapid prototyping --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Desktop automated manufacturing --- Freeform fabrication --- Freeform manufacturing --- Prototyping, Rapid --- RP (Rapid prototyping) --- Additive manufacturing --- Prototypes, Engineering --- Laser sintering

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Robotics. --- Rapid prototyping. --- Three-dimensional printing. --- 3-D printing --- 3D printing --- 3DP (Three-dimensional printing) --- Additive manufacturing --- Desktop automated manufacturing --- Freeform fabrication --- Freeform manufacturing --- Prototyping, Rapid --- RP (Rapid prototyping) --- Prototypes, Engineering --- Laser sintering --- Automation --- Machine theory

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Modern engineering often deals with customized design that requires easy, low-cost and rapid fabrication. Rapid prototyping (RP) is a popular technology that enables quick and easy fabrication of customized forms/objects directly from computer aided design (CAD) model. The needs for quick product development, decreased time to market, and highly customized and low quantity parts are driving the demand for RP technology. Today, RP technology also known as solid freeform fabrication (SFF) or desktop manufacturing (DM) or layer manufacturing (LM) is regarded as an efficient tool to bring the product concept into the product realization rapidly. Though all the RP technologies are additive they are still different from each other in the way of building layers and/or nature of building materials. This book delivers up-to-date information about RP technology focusing on the overview of the principles, functional requirements, design constraints etc. of specific technology.

Rapid prototyping. --- Solid freeform fabrication. --- Fabrication, Solid freeform --- Freeform fabrication, Solid --- Layered manufacturing (Materials processing) --- Manufacturing, Solid freeform --- Computer integrated manufacturing systems --- Three-dimensional printing --- Desktop automated manufacturing --- Freeform fabrication --- Freeform manufacturing --- Prototyping, Rapid --- RP (Rapid prototyping) --- Additive manufacturing --- Prototypes, Engineering --- Laser sintering --- Computer-aided design (CAD)

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This book covers the basics of lasers, optics and materials used for manufacturing and 3D printing. It includes several case studies for readers to apply their understanding of the topics, provide sufficient theoretical background and insights to today's key laser-assisted AM processes and conclude with the future prospects of this exciting technology.

Rapid prototyping --- Manufacturing processes --- Lasers --- Three-dimensional printing --- 3-D printing --- 3D printing --- 3DP (Three-dimensional printing) --- Industrial processing --- Manufacture --- Process engineering (Manufactures) --- Processes, Manufacturing --- Processing, Industrial --- Production processes --- Industrial arts --- Production engineering --- Machine-tools --- Materials --- Desktop automated manufacturing --- Freeform fabrication --- Freeform manufacturing --- Prototyping, Rapid --- RP (Rapid prototyping) --- Prototypes, Engineering --- Industrial applications --- 67.02 --- 67.02 Manufacturing processes --- Additive manufacturing