期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：5
页码：1832
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Miniaturization plays a vital role in today's modern world. Recent manufacturing trends are focused at manufacturing co mponents in compact size. No wadays, the size of the product are getting smaller and smaller to reduce its weight, compact in size, less power consumption, less space utilization etc. The paper aims at proposing an idea to create miniaturized components by reverse engineering and rapid prototyping techniques. Rapid prototyping is techniques used to quickly fabricate prototype or a model of a physical part using three dimensional (3D) computer aided design and reverse engineering process involves collecting the dimensions of an component from the model. In this work, the skeleton of the 3D model of the cooling fan casing is collected using Micro scribe – Reverse Engineering probe. Rhinoceros software was used to alter the dimensions in the created model. Finally, the model is imported into the UP – RPT software and the 3D model are sliced into many layers and the model is developed by fused deposition method in the RPT machine.
关键词：reverse engineering; rapid prototyping; Co mputer-Aided Design; 3D geometrical model.
