Wohlers Report 1998

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Rapid Prototyping & Tooling State of the Industry Year 1998 Annual Worldwide Progress Report

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Photographs and Illustrations

Rapid Prototyping & Tooling State of the Industry: 1998 Worldwide Progress Report features 204-page and includes 28 charts and graphs, 16 tables, and 34 photographs and illustrations. Inside the US, the report is $295, which includes shipping.

Table of Contents
Faqs

Acknowledgments
Focus of this report
Introduction to rapid prototyping and tooling
Summary of 1997
- Growth into other countries
- 3D printers for concept modeling
- Rapid tooling
- Challenges for the future
History of RP systems
Industries being served
- How RP models are being used
- Installations by country
Time-to-market pressures
- Communication
- Engineering changes
- Producing good ideas and powerful proposals
- Developing concept models
- Getting early input from suppliers, tool makers
- Prototypes and prototype tooling
- Metal castings
- Verifying CAD databases
- CAD databases
- Styling, ergonomic studies
- Requesting quotes
- Packaging and shipping
- Critical-to-function drawings
Downturn in the RP industry
Revenue growth
- Secondary market
- Product sales
- Revenue from services
- Service bureau market
- Other service revenues
Unit sales
- 3D regains the lead
- Systems sold by region in 1997
- Cumulative systems sold by region
- Units sold by US manufacturers in 1997
- Units sold by Japanese manufacturers in 1997
- 1997 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
- Comparing growth of RP and CNC machining
Service bureaus
- Concentration of service bureaus
- Working with service bureaus
- Times have changed
- What’s driving prices downward?
- Challenges ahead
- Temporary market saturation
- Second wave of service bureaus
- Mix of RP machines
Prototype tooling
- Silicone rubber tooling
- Direct AIM tooling
- Aluminum-filled epoxy tooling
- Spray metal tooling
- Cast kirksite tooling
- SLS RapidTool
- 3D Keltool
- Prototype tooling selection guide
New approaches to metal tooling
- Competing against machined tooling
- ExpressTool
- CEMCOM
- Dynamic Tooling
- DMLS from EOS
- ExtrudeHone
- PHAST
- Size of tooling market
RP materials
- Stereolithography resins
- Materials for other RP processes
Software for RP
- Bridgeworks and SolidView
- MAGICS, CT-Modeller
- Rapid Prototyping Module
- Rapid Tools
- StlView
- 3D View
- Velocity2
US system manufacturers
- 3D Systems
- Aaroflex
- DTM
- Helisys
- Sanders Prototype
- Stratasys
- What does a 3D printed model cost?
- Z Corporation
- Schroff Development
- What happened to BPM?
RP stock values
- RP stock indices
- P/E ratios
- Value of the US dollar
Europe
- EU support
- RP-related groups and associations
- EuroMold
- Next-day models
- Fraunhofer activities
- EOS
- Fockele & Schwarze
Japan
- Markets embracing RP
- Unit sales growth
- Unit installations
- Trends in Japan
- Obstacles to RP growth
- Clinging to home-grown software
- Tooling and high-speed machining in Japan
System developers from other regions
- Cubital
- Kinergy
New system developments
- LENS technology at SNL
- Directed Light Fabrication at LANL
- Fraunhofer’s Laser Generating
- Topographic Shell Fabrication
- MIT
- Offset Fabrication
US government sponsored R&D programs
- NSF funding
- DARPA, ONR, NASA
RP education
- Overcoming hurdles
- Research activities
Trends in CAD/CAM/CAE
- ACIS versus Parasolid
- Windows compatibility
- CAD unit installations
- Software for industrial design
- Machining STL files
- Hardware and operating systems
- UNIX sites willing to consider PCs
The Internet
Medical modeling
- Skull model of young boy
- Example models
- Endoscopy project
- Cervical spine pilot study
Reverse engineering
- How the technology works
- Laser digitizing systems
- What works, what doesn’t
- Other suggestions
Where’s it all headed?
- Risks, land mines
- Outlook
- In some form, the technology is here to stay
- Rapid manufacturing
The future
- The challenge of prediction
- 3D printing
- Virtual prototyping
- Systems of the future
- Future applications
Final comments
Where to learn more
- Internet mail list
- RPA/SME
Appendix A: Glossary of terms
Appendix B: Addresses of RP system manufacturers
- United States
- Israel and Europe
- Japan
- Singapore
Appendix C: Rapid tooling technology developers
Appendix D: RP software companies
Appendix E: US RP systems
Appendix F: RP systems outside the US
Appendix G: 3D digitizing systems

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