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Rapid Prototyping






- The automatic construction of physical objects using  additive manufacturing technology.

- Widely been used even used to manufacture production-quality parts in relatively small numbers.


- Here is a Video about Rapid Prototype Process, lets go through it....









3D Printing






What is a 3D Printer?







- A types of technologies from Rapid Prototyping but not all 3D Printing  is a part of Rapid Prototyping.

- A form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material.

-  Are generally faster, more affordable and easier to use than other additive manufacturing technologies.

- Offer  ability to print parts and assemblies made of several materials with different mechanical and physical properties in a single build process.

- Advanced 3D printing technologies yield models that closely emulate the look, feel and functionality of product prototypes.

- A 3D printer works by taking a 3D computer file and using and making a series of cross-sectional slices. Each slice is then printed one on top of the other to create the 3D object.

- Standarf applications include design visualization, prototyping/CAD, metal casting, architecture,education, geospatial, healtcare and entertainment/retail.

- Other applications would include reconstructing fossils in paleontology, replicating ancient and priceless artifacts in archaeology, reconstructing bones and body parts in forensic pathology and reconstructing heavily damaged evidence acquired from crime scene investigations.

- 3D printing technology is currently being studied by biotechnology firms and academia for possible use in tissue engineering applications where organs and body parts are built using inkjet techniques.

 


What Can You Make With a 3D Printer?







3D Printing VS Rapid Prototyping




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3D Printing offers a fast, low cost alternative to traditional rapid prototyping for building concept and working models. Both Rapid prototyping (RP) and 3D printing technologies build models layer by layer from STL data.

Somehow Rapid Prototyping is more expensive if compare to 3D Printing. This is because the cost of materials that been use in Rapid Prototyping is nearly twices as much to 3D printing.  Besides that, the 3D Printing is relative smaller and easier to use if compared to Rapid Prototyping.

When using Rapid Prototyping, the user need have the skill to use it. He or she need go through a training process before can use Rapid Protyping effectively. This wastes the time and cause troublesome. Somehow user can easily master the 3D Printing without any hard training process.  User can having a 3D Printing with DIY or homemade thus it result in the rising usage of 3D Printing.

Although full with advantages, but nothing is perfect. 3D Printing still have some problems if compared to Rapid Prototyping. 3D Printing provide a more inaccurate process in certain tasks if compare to Rapid Prototyping. Beside that, the materials choices that provide by Rapid Prototyping is more or wider if compare to 3D Printing that provide limited materials choices for the users.

The popularity of usage 3D Printing is still rising even 3D printing have some disadvantages. This is because the 3D Printing is just provide a sufficient funtions for the end users and the cost of a 3D Printing is also more suitable for end users. Therefore the popularity of 3D Printing is increasing and I believe the incereasement will still continue because the technology of the world keeps transforming anf this will lead more improvement to 3D Printing which fulfilled more the needs of users in future.


3D Printing: If You Can Draw It, You Can Make It











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