Determining fabrication orientations for rapid prototyping with stereolithography apparatus

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-62

  Lan, Po Ting ^c   Chou, Shuo Yan ^c   Chen, Lin Lin ^c   Gemmill, Douglas ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Rapid prototyping; Set up orientation; Stereolithography apparatus; Surface quality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; FACTORY AUTOMATION; LASER BEAMS; LITHOGRAPHY; SURFACES;

STEREOLITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS (SLA);

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0030735110     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(96)00049-8     Document Type: Article

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