Key Technologies of Rapid Modeling for Additive Manufacturing

Faced with the increasingly fierce market competition, manufacturing needs to shorten the product development cycle, and Additive Manufacturing will be widely applied as it can greatly shorten the product development cycle. After years of development, Additive Manufacturing will face a good market prospect as the manufacturing equipment, materials and process have become more and more mature. However, modeling technology is always the bottleneck problem of the product development process, as it occupies most time of the product development. The aim of the paper is to illustrate how to improve the efficiency of modeling for additive manufacturing. As the the application conditions of Additive Manufacturing continues to be mature, rapid modeling technologies will be discussed in the paper, including hierarchical modeling,standardized modeling and parametric modeling technology, which will lay the foundation for rapid modeling of product development. The method of comparative test verification is adopted in the paper, and the results show that rapid modeling technologies discussed in the paper can fully improve the efficiency of modeling for Additive Manufacturing.