Entry-level additive manufacturing: Comparing geometric complexity to high-level machines

Author

Lotz, M.S. ; Pienaar, H.C.V.Z. ; de Beer, D.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. Electron. Eng., Vaal Univ. of Technol., Vanderbijlpark, South Africa

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Not only has the entry-level additive manufacturing (ELAM) market grown at a remarkable rate over the last few years, but combined overall performance of these machines has improved. This enterprise gained publicity with two open-source projects and has grown to several available commercial systems found in the world today. The article will update the progress made in additive manufacturing (AM) with respect to the selected entry-level 3D printer´s geometrical performance. It will also compare the results with different ELAM systems, and finally with an industrial AM system. The aim is to update the printing performance of ELAM systems.

Keywords

production engineering computing; solid modelling; three-dimensional printing; ELAM systems; entry-level 3D printer geometrical performance; entry-level additive manufacturing; geometric complexity; high-level machines; open source projects; Additives; Design automation; Manufacturing; Printers; Printing; Solid modeling; Three-dimensional displays; Additive Manufacturing; Geometric Complexity; Personal 3D printer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2013

Conference_Location

Pointe-Aux-Piments

ISSN

2153-0025

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5940-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.2013.6757608

Filename

6757608