Find out how this "desktop manufacturing" concept is helping design teams visualize parts faster and build solid objects with high-precision results in just hours. Get an in-depth look at many recent innovations achieved by rapid prototyping and manufacturing technology, including: advances in materials, hardware, software, part accuracy, and surface finish; soft tooling applications; RP&M patterns of direct shell investment casting; and developments in rapid hard tooling. Case studies provide real-world examples of the uses of these technologies in industry, including the application of RP&M at Texas Instruments, Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, and the Ford Motor Company, as well as some novel applications involving flow and visualization, photoelastic stress testing, dynamic vibration analysis, and surgical pre-planning in the medical field. Detailed step-by-step procedures are provided to assist users in generating soft and hard tooling. Finally, a chapter devoted to RP&M service bureaus includes an extensive directory of companies in North America that currently provide CAD modeling, rapid prototyping, and various secondary processes.
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Paul Jacobs has a B.S. from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and earned an M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from Princeton University. In 1965, he joined the Electro-Optical Systems Division of Xerox Corporation in Pasadena, California, as a senior physicist, working initially on plasma accelerators, then on laser-based optical systems. In 1984, Dr. Jacobs received the Xerox Special Achievement Award and was appointed chief scientist in 1985.
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