Date of Publication :14th March 2018

Abstract: Rapid Prototyping Technology (RPT) has been applied in many industries in recent years, especially in the area of product development.Existing processes provide the ability to quickly produce a tangible solid part from a range of materials, such as photo curable resin, powders, paper, and photo curable resin directly from three-dimensional CAD data.The paper provides an overview of the pattern, application areas, major advantages for manufacturing industries and technology's development.Rapid Prototyping is a collection of techniques that produce a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer-aided data.Construction of assembly parts is achieved by using an additive layer manufacturing technology or 3D printing to make it appear as attractive as possible.The first prototyping methods have been used to produce prototype parts as well as model parts which have proven to be very useful in the manufacturing industry.These prototypes arecurrently used to produce different quality products without evidence of adverse short-run economies

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