June 1993
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Aerospace America
With rapid, 3D CAD data-based prototyping systems, engineers can analyze a structural component's form, fit, and function, thereby obtaining improved design quality, shorter design-life cycles, and lower development costs. Accounts are presently given of prototyping methods employing stereolithography, laminated-object manufacturing, fused-deposition modeling, solid-ground curing, and photosolidification.