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Reverse Engineering &
Rapid Prototyping
www.udri.udayton.edu
UDRI operates a comprehensive facility aimed at reducing product development cycle
cost and time. Capabilities include reverse engineering of existing products via 3-D
digitization and geometric analysis, 3-D printing of prototype models, and computer
design and optimization of molds and tools to manufacture newly developed products.
Applications include consumer, industrial, or military products manufactured from
plastics, polymer composites, or metals, as well as tooling for all types of plastic
molding processes, composite curing techniques, and sheet metal stamping.
3-D Part Scanning and Analysis
• Metris Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM):
model Evolution 15.12.10, working envelope 8 ft. x 4 ft.
x 3 ft. high, optics grade marble table, laser scanner
with 8 mm accuracy @ 20,000 points/sec, tactile probe
with 0.5 mm accuracy @ ~1 point/sec, housed in
temperature & humidity controlled room.
• Infinite Coordinate Inspection Machine (CIM):
portable unit that can be taken into the field and used
for manual scanning, laser scanner with 50-75 mm
accuracy @ 20,000 points/sec, tactile probe with 15 mm
accuracy @ speed of operator
• Metris Scan Software: used for scanning control,
analysis of point cloud data, feature comparison of point
cloud data with solid models, and generation of object
files to be used in CNC machining or rapid prototyping
machines.
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3-D Printing / Rapid Prototyping
• Fused deposition modeling (FDM) process, model
Dimension SST 1200es (Stratasys Inc.)
• Working envelope 10 in. x 10 in. x 12 in. high
• Layer thickness 0.007 in. or 0.010 in.
• ABS plastic materials of 9 color variations (black, white,
red, blue, olive, yellow, nectarine, gray, natural)
• Soluble support materials used and removed in post
production bath
3D Printer
Solvent Bath
Dimension SST 1200es
3D Printed Motor
Housing
3D Printed Ice-
Scraper Assembly
3D Printed MAV Assembly
Mold Design and Analysis
• Solid Works 2010 : software used to design molds beginning with
reverse engineering master pattern file or via manual development;
user can add sprues, gates, vents, knock-out pins, support
structures, draft angles, cooling lines etc.; mold design is output to
IGES format for Moldflow analysis or CNC machining.
• Moldflow 2010: software used to simulate injection molding
process, used iteratively with Solid Words to optimize mold design
prior to final production
Injection Mold Simulation
For further information please contact:
Jared Stonecash
937-229-4361
Jared.Stonecash@udri.udayton.edu
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