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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
1. Introduction and Basic Principles
Authors : Ian Gibson, David Rosen, Brent Stucker, Mahyar Khorasani
Published in: Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The technology described in this book was originally referred to as Rapid Prototyping. The term Rapid Prototyping (or RP) is used to describe a process for rapidly creating a system or part representation before final release or commercialization. The emphasis is on creating something quickly for use as a prototype or basis model from which further models and eventually the final product will be derived. In product development, the term Rapid Prototyping describes technologies which create physical prototypes. This text is about technologies which can directly produce objects from digital data. These technologies were first developed for prototyping but are now used for many more purposes.