Additive Manufacturing is a new manufacturing method which adds
material layer-by-layer to produce an object. This report set out
to investigate a number of questions relating to Additive
Manufacturing and its implications on current design practice,
products and users. An introduction to Additive Manufacture as a
process and how it has evolved from Rapid Prototyping is given.
This report documents the Design for Manufacture constraints which
Injection Moulding, a traditional manufacturing method, incurs and
gives details of why most do not apply to Additive Manufacturing.
The main freedom of traditional constraints comes from the nature
of Additive Manufacturing being tool-less and therefore
considerations such as constant wall thickness and non-undercutting
geometry are not applicable. New constraints when 'Designing for
Additive Manufacture' are given and explained including the need to
remove support material or excess resin from within hollow
geometry. Further still this report investigates consumer awareness
and reception to Additive Manufacture through primary research in
the form of a questionnaire - the first research of its kind into
this topic.
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