Wohlers Report 1997

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National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining

Rapid Prototyping & Tooling State of the Industry Year 1997 Annual Worldwide Progress Report

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Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Changing industry
- Tracking new developments
Industries being served
- How RP models are being used
- Installations by country
Development of RP systems
Why rapid prototyping?
- Engineering changes
- Producing powerful proposals
- Getting early input from suppliers and tool makers
- Verifying CAD databases
- Styling and ergonomic studies
- Requesting quotes
- Packaging and shipping
- Critical-to-function drawings
Market growth
- Secondary market
- Product sales
- Revenue from services
- Service bureau market
- Other service revenues
System unit sales
- New unit sales leader
- Systems sold by region in 1996
- Cumulative systems sold by region
- Installations by US manufacturers in 1996
- Systems sold by the Japanese
- 1996 unit sales by manufacturer
- Cumulative unit sales by manufacturer
- Unit sales by vendor and year
Growth trends and sales forecasts
- Unit sales growth percentages
- Worldwide revenue estimates
- Annual revenue growth percentages
- RP growth compared to CNC, machining
- Billion dollar industry
Service bureaus
- Concentration of SBs
- Working with SBs
- SBs are changing
- Second wave of SBs
- Mix of RP machines
- SB survey results
Rapid tooling
- Silicone rubber tooling
- Direct AIM tooling
- Epoxy/composite tooling
- Spray metal tooling
- Cast kirksite tooling
- SLS RapidTool
- 3D Keltool
- Rapid tooling selection guidelines
New developments in rapid tooling
- Laser Fare
- 3D Keltool
- CEMCOM
- Rapid Dynamics
- 3DP at MIT
- LENS technology at Sandia
- Topographic Shell Fabrication
Size of tooling market
Material advances
Software for RP
- Bridgeworks and SolidView
- Brockware
- MAGICS, CT-Modeller
- Rapid Prototyping Module (RPM)
- Rapid Tools
- StlView
- Velocity
- Z-Shifter
Concept modelers
- Genisys
- Actua 2100
- Personal Modeler 2100
- ModelMaker II
- Z402
- Cost of 3D printing
- Reducing the need for prototypes
- Bottom line
System manufacturers
- 3D Systems
- Aaroflex
- BPM Technology
- Cubital
- DTM
- Helisys
- Sanders Prototype
- Stratasys
- Z Corporation
RP stock values
RP systems in the US
RP systems outside the US
Europe
- Disadvantage
- EOS
Japan
- Growth in Japan
- Installed base
- Obstacles to growth
- Clinging to home-grown software
- Tooling in Japan
- High-speed machining
Academic programs
- Focus
- Challenges, opportunities
CAD industry trends
- CAD software
- Rhino design software
- CAD unit installations
- Hardware and OSs
- UNIX sites willing to consider Pcs
The Internet
Medical modeling
- Skull model of 14-year-old
- Example models
- Endoscopy project
Reverse engineering
- How the technology works
- Laser digitizing systems
- What works, what doesn’t
- Other suggestions
- 3D digitizing systems
Where’s it all headed?
- Risks, land mines
- Place your bet
- 8-track tape, audio cassette, and CD
The future
- The challenge of prediction
- RP system of the future
- Virtual prototyping
- Division
- Muse
- Future applications
Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgments
About the author
Where to learn more
- Internet mail list
- RPA/SME
Copyright and trademarks
Appendix A: RP system manufacturer addresses
- United States
- Israel and Europe
- Japan
Appendix B: RP software company addresses

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