Topics: Manufacturing : Prototyping
Manufacturing Prototyping is the art and science of making physical models of manufactured products. Companies use these models, or "prototypes," to evaluate new product designs before investing in full-scale production. Prototypes are traditionally sculpted by hand from clay, wood, or resin, or, are painstakingly milled from blocks of metal. Today, "rapid prototyping" machines linked to computers running prototype build software quickly sculpt special plastic or metallic compounds with lasers, leaving only fine finishing to human craftsmen. This category lists resources for Manufacturing Prototyping machine builders, materials manufacturers, and service providers. It also provides links to prototyping tutorials, research information, and relevant publications.
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Rapid Prototyping, Tooling, Manufacturing & Production Bureau
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Electrical
Electrical prototyping is the building of a physical circuit from a theoretical design to test and verify that it works, and to provide a physical platform for debugging it if it does not.
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Rapid Prototyping
Rapid Prototyping is an automated process that quickly builds physical prototypes from 3D CAD files composed of surface quilts or solid models.
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