Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 7 Issue 4

Digital manufacturing – Napster fabbing: Internet delivery of physical products

Marshall Burns, James Howison

Looks at “fabbing” – digital fabricating of physical products and its future in the business world via the Internet. Concludes that this is a process that is here to stay and…

Rapid prototyping for direct manufacture

Neil Hopkinson, Phill Dickens

Introduces the concept of using technologies collectively known as rapid prototyping (RP) for the manufacture of end‐use products rather than prototypes, and presents recent…

Production grade tooling via layer manufacture

K.W. Dalgarno

This paper is a summary of the session topic “Production grade tooling via rapid manufacture” which was part of the Internet conference on the future of RP which ran from December…

Synthesis of functional gradient parts via RP methods

Igor Shishkovsky

Discusses the prospects of integration of functionally graded materials coating methods and computer modelling methods, which developed independently earlier. It is shown that…

Colour RP

Ian Gibson, Ling Wai Ming

Since the last Rapid Prototyping Journal Internet Conference of 1998/1999, colour RP has come to commercial fruition in the form of the ZCorp Z406, 3D Printing machine. In the…

RP in art and conceptual design

Hon Wah Wai

This paper is a conclusion to one of the forum topics: “RP for Art and Conceptual Design” in the 2001 “Future of RP” Web conference. Art and conceptual design are often regarded…

Rapid prototyping integrated systems

S.O. Onuh

From the early 1990s, rapid prototyping (RP) system integration has become the desire of both industries and researchers. Presents a summary of findings from the Internet…