• Tooling solutions
• High-performance tooling
• Indirect tooling approaches
  • RSP Tooling
  • Reconfigurable Tooling Systems
  • Other options
• Direct approaches
  • Laser Consolidation
  • SLS tooling
  • DMLS
  • Others
• Other options
  • CNC-machined tooling
  • Hybrid tooling
• Size of tooling market

PART 6: RAPID MANUFACTURING

• Another industrial revolution?
• Benefits and barriers
  • Design freedom
  • Industrial design
  • Customer-driven design
  • Part consolidation and optimization
  • Product personalization
  • Logistics and supply chains
• Applications and industries
  • Aerospace
  • Military
  • Motor sports
  • Automotive
  • Machinery
  • Medical and dental
  • Consumer products
  • Art and jewelry
  • Gifts, awards, and trophies
  • Future possibilities
• When it makes sense
  • Shape and size
  • Production volume
  • Quality
• Cost analysis and economics
  • Production implications
  • Strategic implications
• Challenges and required research
  • Processes
  • Materials
  • Organization, management, and supply chain issues

PART 7: OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

• Growth of CAD solid modeling
  • Major trends
  • Revenue and seat count estimates
  • Operating systems
  • What's next?
• Materials
  • LS powders
  • SL resins
  • Other materials
  • Coatings and surface treatments
  • Rapid manufacturing
  • Predicting the performance of injection-molded parts
• Medical applications
  • Medical image-processing software
  • Materials suited to medical modeling
  • Additive methods suited to medical modeling
  • Implantable additive parts
  • Injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• 3D scanning and reverse engineering
  • 3D scanning hardware
  • Processing software
  • Applications
  • Technology
  • Limitations and other issues
  • Polygon meshes and surfaces
  • Caveats and conclusions

PART 8: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

• Patents
• Technology development
  • Process development
  • Materials
  • Applications
• Nanomanufacturing
  • Examples
  • Approaches
• U.S. government-sponsored R&D
  • National Science Foundation
  • Meso, micro, and nanoscale technology
  • Process improvements, material developments, and new applications
  • Composites, multi-materials, and functionally graded materials
  • Medicine
  • Education
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Department of Defense
  • NASA
• College and university education and research
  • Educational activities in additive fabrication
  • Research and teaching
  • Future trends and contributions

PART 9: WHERE IT'S ALL HEADED

• 3D printing for design and modeling
• Mainstream systems
• Systems for rapid manufacturing
  • Application areas
  • Short-run production
  • Complex shapes and assemblies
  • Multi-functional components
• Indirect rapid manufacturing
• Tooling
• Summary
• Where to learn more
  • Global Alliance of Rapid Prototyping Associations
  • Rapid Technologies and Additive Manufacturing Community

APPENDICES

• Appendix A: Glossary of terms
• Appendix B: System and material manufacturers
  • Canada
  • China
  • France
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Sweden
  • United States
• Appendix C: U.S. system specifications
• Appendix D: Systems manufactured outside the U.S.
• Appendix E: Material properties
• Appendix F: Metal fabrication comparison matrix
• Appendix G: 3D scanning systems
• Appendix H: 3D scan processing software