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R&D programme aims to promote technology and stimulate suppliers to develop market driven enabling technologies for future motor vehicles (cars, taxis, HGV's, buses and light commercial vans).
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"The lack of standards for rapid prototyping (RP) is a perennial barrier to launching it on the fast track to wide acceptance."
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"3D scanning helps a kayak maker navigate between hand crafting and digital design."
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Spatial controllers help engineers and designers get a handle on using a host of 3D MCAD applications.
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"The algae are eating carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides from the plant's emissions--40 percent of the former and 86 percent of the latter--and turning them into harmless oxygen and nitrogen."
wrt the "RP standards", the issue is even bigger afaic. What's needed is an entire set of 3D standards (they only hint at an .stl replacement). I'm not talking about just within tangible systems, but across both the Real and the Virtual.
When that happens, things will get really interesting. Files that can be leveraged anywhere opens up the 3D world similarly to how RM processes unshackle manufacturing from ancient "mold" processes.
Get the files - blow the lid off of available content - and there will definitely be "a company {that} develops the IBM PC of the RP industry". And then the material standards will definitely fall in line. Without those standards I think it's going to take longer to get there.
Posted by: csven | May 01, 2006 at 08:11 AM