Unlocking the Design Potential of Rapid Manufacturing

Rapid Manufacturing: An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5-18

  Hague, Richard J M ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing processes; Cost effective customisation; Design for manufacture; Draft angles; Geometrical freedom; Over moulding technique; Tool less process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889426771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470033991.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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