This chapter presents the rapid prototyping and manufacturing concepts applied as means to reducing time between jewellery designs and manufacturing process. Different processes on jewellery modelling production are presented. Nowadays, the use of technologies as CAD/CAM Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing in high production companies are very disseminated. However, the implementation of th...

With the development of computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) technology, it has been possible to reconstruct the cranio-maxillofacial defect with more accurate preoperative planning, precise patient-specific implants (PSIs), and shorter operation times. The manufacturing processes include subtractive manufacturing and additive manufacturing and should be selected in cons...

background: there have been numerous researches on elastomeric ligatures, but clinical conditions in different stages of treatment are not exactly similar to laboratory conditions. the aim of this in vitro study was to simulate clinical conditions and evaluate the effect of three stretching patterns on the amount of force, tensile strength (ts) and extension to ts of the elastomers during 8 wee...

To integrate CA systems with other applications in the world of CIM one prin cipal approach currently under development is based on feature representation It enables any CIM component to recognize the higher level entities the so called features out of a lower data exchange format which might be the internal rep resentation of a CAD system as well as some standard data exchange format In this p...

The electronics computer-aided process-planning (ECAPP) system is a rule-and frame-based generative process-planning system for the assembly of electronic components onto printed circuit boards (or modu-less). ECAPP uses expert process-engineering knowledge, a manufacturing plant's specific process capabilities, and product information from a computer-aided design (CAD) database to generate all...

This report describes a clinical technique for fabricating a maxillary implant-supported, removable complete dental prosthesis by using an intraoral digital scanner to register implant positions and soft tissue morphology. The presented technique uses computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) technology with a subtractive manufacturing process to fabricate a milled bar (infra...