FDM Part Prototyping
This post is simply to show how neat the FDM process is. FDM stands for Fused Deposition Modeling and is a neat tool for prototyping plastic parts. I was able to see the results of FDM after a customer had one of my models done with the process, he was nice enough to let me take some pics of it 🙂 . Frankly I think this kind of prototyping opens up a wide variety of interesting possibilities in terms of being able to develop plastic enclosures and various other mechanical projects.
Here are some images:
The two peices in FDM, this is a deposited ABS IIRC.
I altered the levels to show how the process fills in non critical areas. Of course it would depend on the machine performing the action.
Corner Detail FDM
This is a very interesting process, hopefully I can make use of it in the future.
Here’s the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_deposition_modeling
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