RESEARCH ON HOW TO CORRELATE THE ACCURACY OF THE PROTOTYPE MODEL, TOOLS AND PLASTIC INJECTED PARTS IN THE RAPID PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, USING THE SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING METHOD

Razvan Pacurar, Ancuta Pacurar

Abstract


The paper presents a Rapid Tooling (RT) technology that is suitable for Rapid Product Development (RPD) and for tooling preparation of the small volume production. A case study developed within National Center of Rapid Prototyping from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUC-N) and Plastor SA company from Oradea, focused on the manufacturing of the injection moulding tools by selective laser sintering (SLS) technology is being analyzed, revealing the peculiarities and complexity of this technology, which involves different issues related to the correlation of the manufactured tools accuracy with the accuracy of CAD model and the injected plastic.


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