Assembly redesign for rapid prototyping

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 75-84

  Wu, J ^a   Tan, S T ^a   Sze, W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Assembly solid model; Multiple material; Rapid prototyping; Redesign

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

ASSEMBLY REDESIGN; ASSEMBLY SOLID MODEL; MULTIPLE MATERIAL;

PRODUCT DESIGN; ASSEMBLY;

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; MULTIPLE MATERIALS; REDUCING COSTS; SOLID MODEL; TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0035791126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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