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Author Adams-Charles; Brown-Robert; Freeman-Paul; Lewis-Alan; Barnes-Stuart
Source Manufacturing-Engineer. v 78 n 6 Dec 1999, p 264-268
Abstract As rapid prototyping (RP) technology continues to develop, other systems and processes are becoming available to industry. One such technology is rapid tooling (RT). Rapid tooling techniques have the potential to reduce product lead times, but several RT technologies are not yet well understood and are still the subject of investigative research. Rapid tooling can be broken into two broad classifications: indirect and direct tooling. In producing mould tool, indirect tooling would use a master pattern to produce the mould cavity, whereas direct tooling would build the mould tool directly from CAD data. 8 Refs. (Auth abstract) XX