The concept of rapid prototyping intended for a significant reduction in cost and lead time becomes even more practical with recent development of various equipment to make the concept concrete. For the purpose of real application of commercially avai...
The concept of rapid prototyping intended for a significant reduction in cost and lead time becomes even more practical with recent development of various equipment to make the concept concrete. For the purpose of real application of commercially available SLA(streolithography apparatus), this paper is proposed to develop the reduction of STL file translation time with different model and CAD systems. To improve this situation, two versions of an STL formats are also applied for the proposed model. The basic concept of this paper can be applied to any other CAD systems and machines of using streolithography process. The variables presented in this paper is classified into chord height, angle and deviation for the present model. The result shows that STL file translation time is increased with complexity and magnitude of the proposed model geomtry.