Those ideas that generate the most support through this process move into rapid prototyping.
Reframing the challenge, phrasing problems as questions, and rapid prototyping are effective techniques.
Existing 3-D printers, also called rapid prototyping machines, build structures layer by layer.
Often, one or two people operate 1, 2, or 4 rapid prototyping machines and produce thousands of parts, test models, or finished products.
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Rapid Prototyping technologies like 3D printers, laser cutters, and shared workspaces like TechShop are democratizing innovation in the physical world of atoms.
Meanwhile, researchers at Advanced Ceramics Research in Tucson, Arizona, are developing rapid prototyping to create replacement bones, with funding from America's Office of Naval Research.
The success of such products has contributed to the hardware explosion in their own right, offering up the capability of rapid prototyping in a home environment.
We've been inspired in this regard by a group called the Rapid Results Institute, with which we've collaborated on new models of rapid prototyping for the social sector.
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He said Nokia already used 3D printing internally to do rapid prototyping, but decided to back it more publicly to help the nascent technology realise its "incredible potential".
It is this idea of rapid prototyping and flexibility in the plan (as demonstrated by our fearless youth in the marshmallow challenge) that yields the greatest chance for success.
With more than 260 channel partners around the world, Stratasys can leverage the extensive geographic reach of its marketing and sales organization to serve customers and grow awareness of 3D printing for rapid prototyping and production.
Some printers rely on other technologies, many of which are rooted in the world of rapid prototyping, a category of fabrication that has been around for decades and used by companies like Boeing and Ford to created scale models of concepts.
Jumping up a bit bigger than one or two machines, Morris Technologies (Cincinnati, Ohio), for example, owns and operates 20 direct metal laser sintering machines, in addition to other rapid prototyping technologies, to manufacture and prototype products for a range of industries including aerospace and medical.
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So far, however, the rapid-prototyping machine simply produces an accurately shaped mould from which the plate is cast.
Using a legitimate club head or even a photograph as a model, rapid-prototyping technology can spit out CAD files and create a master for a driver or iron head quickly and inexpensively.
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Rapid-prototyping machines have, for example, shortened the casting process for facial and cranial plates used in reconstructive surgery, says Robin Richards at the department of medical physics at University College, London.
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