Automated Loading and Unloading of the Stratasys FDM 1600 Rapid Prototyping System

Rapid prototyping systems have advanced significantly with respect to material capabilities, fabrication speed, and surface quality. However, build jobs are still manually activated one at a time. The result is non-productive machine time whenever an operator is not at hand to make a job changeover....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brockmeier, Oivind
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31533
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03242000-10440034