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Its a 3d laser cutting machine. What is it called?

I am not sure of how it works, but i know that it works with AutoCAD or Inventor or some other 3d software. Somehow it laser cuts a model out of some kind of material. I was wanting to know what this machine is called or the a link to a website? For example, I have 3d modeled a boat in Autocad and I want to see it in real life, to scale. I send the file to this laser cutter and in a few hours it has produced a scaled model of the boat. one that if I wanted to I could hold, paint or whatever. Does anyone know what this process or machine is called? It may not even use lasers, I dont know how it works. I have seen some of the models that it produces though.

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1. 3d Lithography Rapid prototype machines There's a bunch of companies now. sreekanthsreenadh - No This doesn't cut pipes or I beams. It maked fancy shaped objects so intricate your could hardly carve them by hand. Jade - I think you mean Rapid Prototyping Machine. **** ******* They are creating new systems faster than I or Wikipedia can keep up with. ******* ***** Stereolithography cut sheets of material building the onject a layer at a time. Fused Deposition Modeling lays the material down one layer at a time fusing it together. Laser Deposition A laser hardens liquid plastic letting the liquid run off and the part remain. Stereolithography (SLA) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) by 3D Systems, Inc. of Rock Hill, South Carolina. Solid Creation Stereolithography systems by Sony Manufacturing Systems Corporation of Saitama, Japan. Solid Imager Stereolithography by Aaroflex, Inc. of Fairfax, Virginia. Rapid Meister Stereolithography by CMET Inc of Yokohama, Japan. Realizer Stereolithography by Realizer Gmbh of Borchen, Germany. Small scale stereolithography by Unirapid Inc. of Misato, Japan. Site is in Japanese. Laser Sintering of metals and plastics by EOS GmbH of Munich, Germany. E-Darts desktop SLA system by Autostrade Co. Ltd of Oita City, Japan. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) by Stratasys, Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Paper Lamination Technology by KIRA Corporation of Aichi, Japan. Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) by Cubic Technologies Inc. of Carson, California. Three dimensional plotting by Solidscape Inc. (formerly Sanders Prototype Inc.) of Merrimack, New Hampshire. Digital Light Processing (DLP) by Envision Technologies GmbH of Gladbeck, Germany. Polyjet, a photopolymer-jetting technology by Objet Geometries Ltd. of Rehovot, Israel. Z810 Ink Jet Printer by Z Corporation of Burlington, Massachusetts. Z Corporation is a subsidiary of Contex of Denmark. HTS FDM machine and LTY 3D printer developed by Fochif Mechatronics Technology Co., Ltd. of Shanghai, China. Patternless Casting Modeling (PCM), Stereolithography and Fused Deposition Modeling equipment by Beijing Yinhua Co. Ltd. of Beijing, China.
2. You mean a Prototype machine?
3. The Mazak Space Gear is a 3D laser cutting machine that can laser cut round, square, rectangular, and triangular pipe as well as I and H beams, C channel, and angle iron. This 3D laser cutting machine laser cuts holes, contours, angles and bevels with only one setup per part.
4. Check out finn-power CNC milling machines. Usually the work is done in some alloy. Material costs are high because there is allot of waste. You start with a block and the different high speed dies shave it into shape. This is usually for precision aircraft parts so the cost can be high. It might be cheaper to have a mold made and create a ceramic copy.