...Alistair Jones; Janelle Faul; Christopher Paul; Cael Johnston; Michael Benoit Purpose The 3DCastleBenchy has been developed to facilitate wider adoption and use of additive manufacturing benchmarking artefacts which encourage both technical and non-technical users and designers to connect...

... 2017 09 05 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Benchmarking Selective laser sintering Design rules Minimum feature size Process characterization using the s_x intermediate variables to clarify...

...Christian Polzin; Sebastian Spath; Hermann Seitz Purpose The purpose of this paper is to characterize and evaluate a new 3D‐printing process based on Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). Design/methodology/approach A benchmark part and standard parts were designed, printed by a 3D‐printer...

...D. Dimitrov; W. van Wijck; K. Schreve; N. de Beer Purpose The research was undertaken to characterise the three dimensional printing (3DP) process in term of the achievable dimensional and geometric accuracy. Design/methodology/approach New benchmark models were developed that represent...

...Vito R. Gervasi; Adam Schneider; Joshua Rocholl Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share with the solid freeform fabrication community a new procedure and benchmark geometries for evaluating SFF process capabilities. The procedure evaluates the range capability of various SFF and SFF‐based...

...M. Mahesh; Y.S. Wong; J.Y.H. Fuh; H.T. Loh A geometric benchmark part is proposed, designed and fabricated for the performance evaluation of rapid prototyping machines/processes. The benchmark part incorporates key shapes and features of better‐known benchmark parts. It also includes new geometric...