Shape Deposition Manufacturing
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Release status: Concept
Description | Hybrid milling/FDM high-accuracy rapid prototyping.
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Technology Overview
It's called Shape Deposition Manufacturing. (At least by some people.)
Here's a Stanford Lab that's done a lot of work on it.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/ http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/sdm.html
http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/ShapeDepositionManufacturing
It's a very cool subject which we'd be very happy to have under the RepRap umbrella. It would mean lots of tiny gears, or gears which mesh nicely etc.
Here is a google scholar search on "shape deposition manufacturing" http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=shape+deposition+manufacturing&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on