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With Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) technologies, the possibility of implementing a VLSI-like metaphor for design-manufacturing information transfer is enabled. That is, it has been hypothesized that a standard interchange format for SFF can be developed that enables design activity to be separated from manufacturing activity and that little additional communication between design and manufacturing organizations is necessary. In this paper, this hypothesis is explored for various points along the product design timeline. At earlier times in the design process, the requirements for a standard interchange format change as do requirements on SFF process planning. Advantages and disadvantages of early transfer of design information are presented. A system architecture and information models are discussed for enabling design-manufacturing transfers at various points in the design timeline. Examples are presented that illustrate progress toward this architecture and demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of our progress.
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Rosen, D.W. (2000). Design-to-Manufacture Information Transfer in the Context of Solid Freeform Fabrication Technologies. In: Finger, S., Tomiyama, T., Mäntylä, M. (eds) Knowledge Intensive Computer Aided Design. KIC 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35582-5_8
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