Manufacturing elements to support design for additive manufacturing
Manufacturable ELements (MELs) are proposed as an intermediate representation to support Design For Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) and process planning. MELs are constructed to relate design features and geometric regions to manufacturing operations that are suitable to fabricate those features or...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88575 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45826 |
| Summary: | Manufacturable ELements (MELs) are proposed as an intermediate representation
to support Design For Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) and process planning. MELs are
constructed to relate design features and geometric regions to manufacturing operations that are
suitable to fabricate those features or regions. Such intermediate representations provide a
validated parametric model that aids in the construction of as-fabricated part models for both
engineering analysis and process planning. Viewed differently, MELs contain information with
which designers can explore process-structure-property relationships of design features that
capture manufacturing process characteristics. Examples are provided for vat photopolymerization
and material extrusion processes. |
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