RP Virtual Library
Please note that this is an evolving list, and it represents only a small portion of the
information on topics related to RP that is available on the internet. There are many
books, periodicals, schools, and companies that focus on RP which are not included in this
list. If you would like to have you web site linked to this page, send your URL to the RPMI Webmaster.
ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH
 Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama does research on almost all existing RP
systems.
Tele-Manufacturing:
Rapid Prototyping on the Internet - an ongoing research and development project at the
University of California at San Diego.
Clemson University's Product Realization Laboratory.
Shape
Deposition Modelling at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Laboratory
for Freeform Fabrication at the University of Texas at Austin. This site requires
Netscape 2.0 or higher.
University of Dayton
in Dayton, Ohio.
Three dimensional
printing a process being developed at MIT.
The
University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom does research involving the
stereolithography process.
Freeform Powder Molding at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New
York.
Robot Fusion Welding at Universidade do Minho in Guimaraes, Portugal.
Rapid Thermal Prototyping at Tufts University .
The Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at Virginia Tech, one of the very few
educational institutions in this country to offer an RP course.
The University of Hong
Kong.
Delcam
International headquartered in Birmingham, England is a partner in the Computer Aided
Rapid Prototyping (CARP) research project.
University of Connecticut at Storrs is involved in the development of
the Selective Area Laser Deposition process.
CAM-LEM, Inc. of
Cleveland, Ohio is developing a process called Computer Aided Manufacturing of Laminated
Engineering Materials.
Centre for Rapid Design
and Manufacture at the Buckinghamshire College in Buckinghamshire, England.
Ceramic Composites Inc. of Annapolis, Maryland is involved in the
development of stereolithography and
laminated object manufacturing techniques
using metals and ceramics.
Bremen Institute
for Industrial Technology in Bremen, Germany.
Royal
Institute of Technology does SLS oriented research in Stockholm, Sweden.
The
Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute at Georgia Tech.
Cranfield
University in the United Kingdom.
The Technology Applications Center at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in
Kalamazoo, Michigan provides training on a Stratasys FDM1600 machine.
Alberta Research Council uses RP models for investment casting .
The Manufacturing Technology Laboratory at General Electric Research and
Development is on the leading edge of Rapid Prototyping Techonology.
Kwang
Ju Institute of Science and Technology does SLS oriented research in Korea.
Knowledge Aided Engineering Manufacturing and
Related Technologies (KAEMART)
Group at the University of Parma, Italy does research involving direct slicing for SLA.
The CAD/CAM
Laboratory at the University of Michigan does reseach involving Layered Manufacturing
and is equipped with Stratasys FDM equipment.
The
Rapid Prototyping Center at Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
does research involving the SLA, LOM and FDM processes.
Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven does reasearch involving SLA and 3D plotting.
Fraunhofer Resource
Center USA does SLA research in Boston, Massachussetts.
Fraunhofer Institute for
Chemical Technology is developing a rapid metal prototyping system in Germany.
COMMERCIAL RAPID PROTOTYPING SYSTEMS
Stereolithography by 3D Systems, Inc. of Valencia,
California.
Solid Imager Stereolithography by Aaroflex, Inc. of Fairfax, Virginia.
Solid Ground Curing by Cubital of Raanana, Israel.
Selective Laser Sintering by DTM Corporation of Austin, Texas.
Laminated Object Manufacturing by Helisys Corporation of Torrance, California.
Fused Deposition Modeling by Stratasys, Inc. of Eden Prairie,
Minnesota.
Three dimensional plotting by Sanders Prototype Inc. of
Wilton, New Hampshire. Check out their Model Maker Desktop 3D Modeling System in action in
the jewelry industry.
Direct Shell Production Casting by Soligen Technologies Inc.'s
Parts Now service in Northridge,
California.
DeskProto
turns CAD models into parts using an automatic desktop NC milling machine (no CNC
knowledge required). Produced by Delft
Spline Systems of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Topographic Shell Fabrication of parts upto 4x6x11
ft by Formus of San Jose,
California.
An older list of commercial RP
systems.
CONCEPT MODELERS
Actua 2100 by 3D Systems, Inc. of Valencia,
California.
Genisys
by Stratasys, Inc. of Eden Prairie,
Minnesota.
JP System 5 Desktop Rapid Prototyping by Schroff Development Corporation of
Mission, Kansas.
Personal Modeler 2100 by BPM
Technology, Inc. of Greenville, South Carolina.
LITERATURE AND CONFERENCES
Rapid Prototyping Journal.
Rapid
Prototyping Report - the newsletter of the desktop manufacturing industry.
Rapid
News - time-compression technologies magazine.
RP Direct - a resource to the RP community.
Virtual Prototyping
Journal.
The first INTERNET RP conference: Rapid
Product Development.
The Seventh International
Conference on Rapid Prototyping was co-sponsored by the University of Dayton and
Stanford University and took place between March 31 and April 3, 1997.
SAE and SME's "Rapid Prototyping & Tooling
for the Automotive Industry" symposium will take place September 3-5 at the Hyatt
Regency Dearborn, Michigan. Faculty members can attend for FREE.
OTHER VALUABLE RESOURCES
An older RP directory
contains a comprehensive list of commercial vendors, developers, photopolymer vendors,
service bureaus, research centers, and consultants.
Denton
and Company collects data on the Rapid Prototyping industry.
A report on
the present status of Rapid
Prototyping in Japan.
The archives of the Rapid Prototyping mailing list.
The Canadian Association of
Rapid Prototypers and Toolers has information on Canadian Rapid Prototyping Companies.
The Australian
Rapid Prototyping Association.
Society
of Manufacturing Engineers' Rapid Prototyping Association (RPA).
A Workshop Presentation on Rapid Prototyping by the JTEC (Japanese
Technology Evaluation Center) and the WTEC (World Technology Evaluation Center). It
includes video presentations of Japanese and European RP technologies.
RPM of Needham, Massachussetts provides an alternate, independent source
for SLA hardware maintenance.
An excellent overview of the Mechanical
Design Process (includes a comprehensive section on RP).
The Rapid Prototyping Database is our "sister page" in Prague,
The Czech Republic.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers.
Conduct your patent search right
here on the net.
Get the latest news on manufacturing and industry
from Industry.Net Daily.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)'s Manufacturing
Engineering Laboratory.
Find the part you've been searching for using PartNet.
Rapid Prototyping Equipment Vendors
Information Sources
Publications
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