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Rapid prototyping helps us to make a physical appearance of our virtual model or concept. Rapid prototyping machines fetch data from computer where you make your virtual model and use different physical principals to make a physical shape. Basically three methods are used to make a model one is laser cut or Selective Laser Sintering material into layers or used nozzles to inject substances to make layers. There are different materials are used to complete the whole processes; the selection of material depends upon the type and design of the model.

The most common materials that are used are

· Thermo polymer

· Photopolymers

· Prototyping Plastics

· Paper

· Wax

· Metallic Powder etc

Rapid prototyping also allows producing new products and development activities, it is also used to produce tools, small batches of production run, models, prototypes and even metal components.

Most of the time, fastest rapid prototyping service is used indirectly to manufacture objects. A model of the object is designed then this design is used to produce tools. However, scientist are now working on designing a new technology that enables to manufacture tools directly from computer model and eliminate the process of physical modeling.

In the beginning, the production of physical models is expensive for engineers and scientists but this is no true at this time. Now anyone who wants to convert his/her computer model into reality, he/she can do it easily with a little amount of money.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 am.