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Rapid Prototype Systems
Stereolithography and Selective Laser Sintering by 3D Systems, Inc. of Valencia, California.
Solid Imager Stereolithography by Aaroflex, Inc. of Fairfax, Virginia.
Solid Ground Curing by Cubital of Raanana, Israel.
Paper Lamination Technology by KIRA Corporation of Aichi, Japan.
Laminated Object Manufacturing by Cubic Technologies Inc. of Carson, California.
Fused Deposition Modeling by Stratasys, Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Three dimensional plotting by Solidscape Inc. (formerly Sanders Prototype Inc.) of Merrimack, New Hampshire. Check out their Model Maker Desktop 3D Modeling System in action in the jewelry industry.
Direct Shell Production Casting by Soligen Inc. of Northridge, California.
Laser Sintering of metals and plastics by EOS GmbH of Munich, Germany.
DeskProto turns CAD models into parts using an automatic desktop NC milling machine (no CNC knowledge required). Produced by Delft Spline Systems of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) by Optomec Design Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The process builds up metal parts by injecting metal powder into the focus spot of a high power laser beam.
Digital Light Processing (DLP) by Envision Technologies GmbH of Marl, Germany.
An older list of commercial Rapid Prototyping systems.
Many of the links on this page were compiled by Andrei Novac, former graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, former member of the Rapid Prototyping Research Group lead by Dr. Charles L. Thomas.
Please visit his rapid prototyping site.
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