Stereolithography Technology for Creating Solid Prototypes

Rapid Prototypes  Manufacturability  Quality  Production Parts  Production Tooling  Unique Applications Experiments Experiments Optical analysisOptical analysis Material propertiesMaterial properties What are they used for?

Basic System Layout

A Full Scale Model

Prototype Installed

Fluid Flow Cell

System Capabilities  Standard resolution build volume is a 10 inch cube.  Layer depth will be inch.  Laser Beam Diameter inch  High resolution build volume is a 5 inch square 10 inches tall.  Layer depth will be inch.  Laser Beam Diameter inch

Detailed part with small features

Nasal Passage  Original data source from 3mm section of human MRI.  Each adjacent section connected in Mech. Desktop and Gambit (a CFD analysis package)

assembled model with solid “cavity”

Individual cross sections

Bone Structure  STL Data produced from Micro-CT scan data  Multiple specimens of identical structure can be made, reducing samples variations.