.... The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license. CAD 3D printing Finite element analysis (FEA) Parametric model Biomechanics Simulation Medicine is evolving at an accelerating pace, continuously enhancing the quality of treatments...

... Licensed re-use rights only CAD Advanced manufacturing technologies Composite materials Anisotropy Design verification Additive manufacturing (AM) is an industry and technology that has advanced significantly in recent years (Kianian, 2017 ; Wohlers and Gornet, 2014), with particular...

...Taehun Kim; Guk Bae Kim; Hyun Kyung Song; Yoon Soo Kyung; Choung-Soo Kim; Namkug Kim Purpose This study aims to systemically evaluate morphological printing errors between computer-aided design (CAD) and reference models fabricated using two different three-dimensional printing (3DP) technologies...

... characterization Optimization PolyFlex™ Shape memory polymer CAD Advanced manufacturing technologies CAD/CAM Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as three dimensional (3D) printing, is one of the most advanced, flexible and versatile technologies that build customized objects through the addition...

...) Research Rapid prototyping CAD Titanium Metals Selective electron beam melting Ti-6Al-4V is a versatile engineering material which is most commonly used in aeronautic, automotive and medical applications as a result of its good mechanical properties and low density (Heinl et al., 2007...

..., but they are limited with regards to complex parts. This paper proposes a method dedicated to support generation, integrated into CAD software. The objective is to minimize the volume of support and its impact on a part’s surface finish. Two case studies illustrate the methodology. The support generation is based...

...Noor Abdullah Al Mortadi; Dominic Eggbeer; Jeffrey Lewis; Robert Williams Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop and apply clinically relevant methods of analysing the accuracy of dental appliances fabricated using additive manufacture (AM) compared to the computer-aided design (CAD...

...Yunbo Zhang; Tsz Ho Kwok Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish new computer-aided-design (CAD) framework to design custom product that is fabricated additive manufacturing (AM), which can produce complex three-dimensional (3D) object without additional tool or fixture. Additive...

... Licensed re-use rights only CAD Rapid prototyping China has more than 10 million edentulous patients (Qi, 2008). Complete denture implants have benefited many systematically healthy edentulous patients who can afford them, although the removable complete denture is still the primary solution...

... computer-aided design (CAD) and AM in the production of such devices (implants and guides) has been established. Despite this, they are still not commonplace. With AM equipment and CAD tool costs largely outside of the clinician’s or designer’s control, the opportunity exists to explore design process...

...S. Sikder; A. Barari; H.A. Kishawy Purpose – This paper aims to propose a global adaptive direct slicing technique of Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS)-based sculptured surface for rapid prototyping where the NURBS representation is directly extracted from the computer-aided design (CAD...

.... A detailed case study is presented, showing the design procedure, the way to simulate its behavior and the methods to produce the implants by SLM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 CAD Selective laser sintering Mechanical properties of materials Titanium Medical products Finite element...

... scanning time and small slice intervals with respect to old scanners (Hoque, 2011). Technology Rapid prototyping Model CAD Computer tomography (CT) Fabrication Rapid prototyping (RP), a layer-by-layer material deposition technique, started during the early 1980s, has significantly...

... details the design process and how improvements were implemented to reach good printing quality. The authors provide public access to the instructions, software, source code, parts list, user manual and STL and CAD files. Findings – The BeamMaker printer can build objects with a high surface quality...

...Dan Qiu; Noshir A. Langrana For extrusion based multi‐material layered manufacturing (LM) processes, a CAD system has been developed which generates high quality toolpath for part fabrication. This closed loop CAD system includes solid model design and slicing, single‐material toolpath generation...

... during fossilization. Commercial software systems are used to develop image models of the fully reconstructed face and lower jaw. A stereolithography process is used to build the physical model. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Rapid prototyping Image processing CAD CAM Measurement...

... was on objects with homogeneous interior. Two recent advances use of functionally graded materials in parts, and layered manufacturing technology have brought to the forefront the need for CAD systems to support the creation of geometry as well as the graded material inside. This paper reports on such a system...

...Emmanuel Sabourin; Scott A. Houser; Jan Helge Bøhn Presents a new adaptive slicing method for layered manufacturing. The CAD model is first sliced uniformly into slabs of thickness equal to the maximum available fabrication thickness. Each slab is then resliced uniformly as needed to maintain...

...Georges M. Fadel; Chuck Kirschman Rapid prototyping systems are controlled by a computer which uses the CAD representation to build parts according to an additive plane layering process. The computer controls a laser beam or a print head, or any process that leads to the formation of a slice...

... should deliver to a user of RP technology. RP is closely related to the effective use of CAD and related systems, and can demonstrate how geometric models can be transferred from one system to another, and how they are converted from one representation to another. Argues that the functionality that can...