Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 7 Issue 5

The optimal zigzag direction for filling a two‐dimensional region

V.T. Rajan, Vijay Srinivasan, Konstantinos A. Tarabanis

Many engineering and scientific problems require the filling of a two‐dimensional region with scan lines of finite width. The number of contiguous scan line segments required for…

Path planning in the Proteus rapid prototyping system

Konstantinos A. Tarabanis

Presents algorithms for determining the paths employed by the Proteus rapid prototyping system when building three‐dimensional parts. Proteus is a fused deposition modeling system…

Building around inserts: methods for fabricating complex devices in stereolithography

Alok Kataria, David W. Rosen

Stereolithography apparatus (SLA) is capable of in situ fabrication of complex parts, as well as mechanisms and complex devices with embedded components. In this paper, a series…

Characterization of SLS parts for drug delivery devices

K.H. Low, K.F. Leong, C.K. Chua, Z.H. Du, C.M. Cheah

There are many applications for rapid prototyping systems and application in the biomedical field is an important domain. Uses selective laser sintering (SLS) in this study to…

A novel stereolithography technology with conventional UV light

Maoliang Wu, Wanhua Zhao, Yiping Tang, Dichen Li, Bingheng Lu

Stereolithography (SL) is a kind of rapid prototyping technology which uses the laminate manufacturing to fabricate parts. With the development of RP, some new RP processes have…

Preliminary study of rapid prototype medical models

Bal Sanghera, Satyajit Naique, Yannis Papaharilaou, Andrew Amis

Rapid prototype models are directly integrated into non‐engineering applications such as medicine. Medical models are used to plan complex procedures prior to surgery with…