Software Solutions for Rapid Prototyping

by Ian Gibson (Editor)

Software Solutions for Rapid Prototyping goes to the heart of RP. It is the software programming that drives the modelling, execution, and creation of the actual models linking to the CAD packages. Advances and refinements in software and its integrationto RP systems are providing new and innovative solutions to RP problems. Written by a team of experts this book will help extend the usefulness of the technology.

Rapid Prototyping is a technology that is now common use in industry. Some companies outsource this work to specialist suppliers and consultants. Others have brought the technology in-house. There is, therefore, interest in this field from both academics and industry, but much of the development is still done by researchers in academic settings - funded by industry.


RP database systems Heterogeneous solid modelling for RP Decision support systems Reverse engineering and RP Virtual reality support for RP Those involved in RP technologies in industry and in academia will find this book invaluble in the development of their work. Manufacturing industries, product designers, software developers for design, manufacturing, and RP, all need to know about the scope and opportunities that software solutions can offer them.

380 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Ian Gibson (born April 7, 1963) is a Professor of Design Engineering at the University of Twente. Gibson was selected as the scientific director of Fraunhofer Project Center at the University of Twente and is a recipient of lifetime achievement award, the Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award. His main areas of research are in at the additive manufacturing, multi-material systems, micro-RP, Rapid Prototyping, Medical Modelling and tissue engineering.

Gibson is also an editor at the Rapid Prototyping Journal and a visiting professor at Deakin University. He has co-authored over 240 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.