Current status and future prospects of laser stereolithography

Tsuneo Hagiwara

doi:10.1117/12.596757

8 October 2004 Current status and future prospects of laser stereolithography

Tsuneo Hagiwara

Proceedings Volume 5662, Fifth International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.596757
Event: Fifth International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication, 2004, Nara, Japan

Abstract

Stereolithography is a technology which converts 3-D CAD data to three-dimensional plastic models as a 3-D printer does. The shaped plastic model is useful for a verification model, an engineering design model, a working model, a master model for vacuum casting, a medical simulation model and etc. The fundamental technology of the stereolithography consists of four elements; hardware, software, photo-curable resin and know-how to use, whereas they are based on the key technologies for fabricating model. Out of these photo-curable resin has become the most important item, because the customer uses shaped plastic models with the resin for the research and development.

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Tsuneo Hagiwara "Current status and future prospects of laser stereolithography", Proc. SPIE 5662, Fifth International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication, (8 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.596757

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