Rapid manufacturing helps build rapid-manufacturing machine
Manufacturer of 3D printing machines Stratasys Inc. in Eden Prairie, Minn., says it uses rapid manufacturing to build 32 components for its new fuseddeposition- modeling production machine — the FDM 900mc.
The company says the
machine’s touchscreen
bezel one of the
32 parts would have
cost about $100,000 for
traditional tooling and
required about a sixweek
wait. In contrast,
rapid manufacturing
builds parts on-demand
directly from 3D CAD
files.