Tech Question About CAD and RP

[indieFan]

You are correct in thinking that I will be building a display stand. The model is made out of wax on a 3D Systems ThermoJet printer, but the display stand will be made out of plastic by someone in the campus machine shop.

The model that is being created had to be done in a piece-wise fashion, as the size of the overall model was too large for the ThermoJet to print as one single piece. Doing the model part by part also made support removal on certain pieces much easier. As a result of the individual parts being printed at different times and in different configurations, there is no way that the parts would have uniform shrink. (Previous measurements of multiple parts built on the same platen also showed that the shrink was not uniform even within that single build.)

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