Stereolithography build time estimation based on volumetric calculations

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 271-279

  Campbell, Ian ^a   Combrinck, Jacques ^b   De Beer, Deon ^b   Barnard, Ludrick ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Cost estimates; Software prototyping

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DESIGN; ESTIMATION; JOB ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PINCH EFFECT; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

2D SKETCH; 3-D SOLID MODELING; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BUILD TIME; COMPLEX PARTS; COST ANALYSIS; COST ESTIMATES; DESIGN PROCESSES; ESTIMATOR METHOD; MULTI COMPONENTS; PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; PROCESSING TIME; PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STL FILE;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 53349090818     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540810907938     Document Type: Article

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