1. Stereolithography Technology for Creating Solid Prototypes

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

3. Basic System Layout

4. A Full Scale Model

5. Prototype Installed

6. Fluid Flow Cell

7. System Capabilities  Standard resolution build volume is a 10 inch cube.  Layer depth will be 0.004 inch.  Laser Beam Diameter 0.010 inch  High resolution build volume is a 5 inch square 10 inches tall.  Layer depth will be 0.002 inch.  Laser Beam Diameter 0.003 inch

8. Detailed part with small features

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

10. assembled model with solid “cavity”

11. Individual cross sections

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