Short description
Rapid Prototyping provides a manufacturing design process that greatly reduces the time and money involved in new product design and process development. This is the first book to target the general manufacturing processes market at the college level. It presents a number of case studies and examples from the author's work in the area.
Long description
Rapid prototyping is a faster, more cost-effective method for building prototypes from three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) drawings. Rapid Prototyping provides a fundamental overview of the general manufacturing process and presents the principles and applications of designing and fabricating parts in a format that makes learning easy. This user-friendly text features basic information on layered manufacturing processes, the essential vocabulary of nomenclature, numerous review exercises, case studies, a full section of rapid prototyping applications, helpful material for further study, applications to real-world problems, and more.