Unit11RapidPrototypingandManufacturingTechnologies.pptVIP

Unit 11 Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Technologies * Introduction Manufacturing community is facing two important challenging tasks: (1) Substantial reduction of product development time; and (2) Improvement on flexibility for manufacturing multi-variety and small batch-size products. Computer-aided design and manufacturing have significantly improved the traditional production design and manufacturing. However, there are a number of obstacles in true integration of computer-aided design with computer-aided manufacturing for rapid development of new products. To substantially shorten the time for developing patterns, moulds, and prototypes, some manufacturing enterprises have started to use rapid 社团，团体 大量的，可观的 障碍 母模 模具 样件，原型 prototyping (RP) methods for complex patterns making and component prototyping. Over the past few years, a variety of new rapid manufacturing technologies, generally called Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing (RPM), have emerged; the technologies developed include stereolithography (SL), selective laser sintering (SLS), fused deposition modeling (FDM), laminated object manufacturing (LOM), and three dimensional printing (3D Printing). These technologies are capable of directly generating physical objects from CAD databases. They have a common important feature: the prototype part is produced by adding materials rather than removing materials, that is, a part is first modeled by a geometric modeler such as a solid modeler, and then is mathematically sectioned (sliced) into a series of parallel cross-section pieces. For each piece, the curing or binding paths are generated. These curing or binding paths are directly used to instruct the machine for producing the part by 快速原型技术 光固化成型 激光 烧结，熔结 分层实体制造 几何建模软件 切片 切片 横截面 烤 粘合 熔融沉积成型 三维打印成型技术 solidifying or binding a line of material. After a layer is built, a new layer is built on the previous one in the same way. Thus, the model is built layer by layer from the bottom to top. RP Process