Implementation and Testing of a 3-D Hybrid Rapid Prototyping System Capable of Deposition and Machining

Rapid Prototyping (RP), also known as Layered Manufacturing, is a widely used method of manufacturing which has been increasingly applied in the process of design and development of new products. RP's advantages includes being able to produce internal cavities, and being able to deliver and modify prototypes without specialized tooling. New RP technologies add materials than remove materials to produce the prototype part. This simplifies the 3D part producing process to 2D layer adding processes, and permits a part to be produced directly from its computer model. A hybrid Rapid Prototyping system (HRP) developed from existing systems may provide even more flexibility.

Implementation and Testing of a 3-D Hybrid Rapid Prototyping System Capable of Deposition and Machining

Rapid Prototyping (RP), also known as Layered Manufacturing, is a widely used method of manufacturing which has been increasingly applied in the process of design and development of new products. RP's advantages includes being able to produce internal cavities, and being able to deliver and modify prototypes without specialized tooling. New RP technologies add materials than remove materials to produce the prototype part. This simplifies the 3D part producing process to 2D layer adding processes, and permits a part to be produced directly from its computer model. A hybrid Rapid Prototyping system (HRP) developed from existing systems may provide even more flexibility.

Design and Production of Smart Wearable Textile Products Using Layered Manufacturing Technology with Photovoltaic Energy

Smart textiles are used in a wide range of areas, such as defense industry, security, medicine, health, aviation, space sciences, environment, energy, biotechnology, agriculture, food, cosmetics and fashion design. In this study, with the progress of technology in the area of the wearable smart textile industry, 3D manufacturing which has started to take place in the industry as a new manufacturing method or in other words layered manufacturing practices are discessed. For this purpose, a solar panel was placed in the 3D printed material obtained by FDM method, one of the layered manufacturing methods, and integrated into the textile material and to charge our electronic devices from photovoltaic energy was explained. It is aimed to produce, using the knowledge gained as a result of the study, smart textile products that facilitate human life with 3D printed materials obtained from filaments with conductive additive.