Design and production of fixtures for free-form components using selective laser sintering

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-37

  Violante, Maria Grazia ^a   Iuliano, Luca ^a   Minetola, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lasers; Quality control; Rapid prototypes; Sintering

Indexed keywords

FREE-FORM ELEMENTS; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; SUPPORTING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; GEOMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SHEET METAL; SINTERING;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 33846271085     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540710719190     Document Type: Article

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