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RP: Not just for prototyping anymore

By Rain Noe - May 9, 2008

in Object Culture

RT, RM, AF, SLS; that's Rapid Tooling, Rapid Manufacturing, Additive Fabrication, and Selective Laser Sintering. For those of you not up on Rapid Prototyping, read this Modern Plastics article for a primer, as well as the latest developments in the field (and more plastics acronyms than you'll know what to do with).

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Lori Hobson

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Even cooler than SLS (plastic) is DMLS, a process for METAL, even titanium!!!
Check it out
http://blog.mindtribe.com/?p=55

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