Sanders Prototype is currently delivering and has been for 2 years a
commercially available RP system that offers slice thicknesses from .0005 in
or 0.012 mm or 12 microns for $60,000.00 US and does so with NON-TOXIC
materials. This system is also capable of producing slices as thin as .00025
in or 0.006 mm or 6 microns.
Regards,
Rolf Hubert
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From: owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi on behalf of Terry T. Wohlers
Sent: Friday, November 22, 1996 4:15 PM
To: RP-ML
Subject: Ultra-thin layers
C. Clodfelter wrote:
> Has anyone out there heard of any rp systems that can build a layer
> thickness in the 5-10 micron range. Someone at this company remembers
At the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Professors N. Nakajima and
T. Takagi have experimented with very fine structures. The process that they
explored is capable of building mechanical parts with features that are 8
microns (0.00032 inch) in size at an accuracy of +/- 1 micron (0.00004 inch).
They developed a layer building approach similar to Mitsui's COLAMM technology
using UV-854 resin from Sanyo Chemical Industries. This chemical company has
also supplied resin to Mitsui.
At Hitachi, I saw parts built with 30 micron layers. The parts were created
with D-MEC's JSC 1000HD stereolithography system. HD stands for High
Definition. About a year ago, as I recall, 3D Systems published information
on
stereolithography technology that would produce very thin layers, but they
were
not as thin as 5-10 microns. Does anyone have that information handy?
Terry Wohlers
Wohlers Associates, Inc.
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