What is Rapid Prototyping?
In short, rapid prototyping takes you from napkin sketches to the final product. A significant bottleneck in the product development cycle is prototyping. Traditional prototyping workflows typically involve outsourcing the creation of each prototype, waiting weeks - and spending a lot of money for each new iteration, regardless of how design changes are tweaked or overhauled. With rapid prototyping, those weeks between iterations can turn into days. Standard prototyping cycles take months or years to reduce to weeks and get your new product to market in a more appropriate period. What is 3D printing/additive manufacturing/rapid prototyping? Today's rapid prototyping often means introducing 3D printing technologies - or are they rapid prototyping processes or additive manufacturing? It may help to understand what additive manufacturing is and how these technologies fit into the prototyping workflow. What is additive manufacturing? Additive manufacturing (AM) is a dig...