Re: MIT Technology Used in RP Machine

From: Marina Hatsopoulos (marina@zcorp.com)
Date: Mon Aug 25 1997 - 21:16:06 EEST


Z Corporation is currently selling commercial 3D printers for the office
environment. The outstanding feature of our system is the build rate which
is substantially higher than that of any other rapid prototyping system on
the market. Parts can be built in a matter of minutes or hours. Thus our
parts are very useful as appearance models at the early stage of the design
process.

Furthermore, our system is not constrained by the geometric limitations of
most of the other rapid prototyping systems since the loose powder acts as a
support structure during the entire build. Therefore overhangs, undercuts
and other complex geometries can be built with no support structures.

For more information contact:
Ms. Marina Hatsopoulos
President
Z Corporation
617-627-2781
fax 617-628-2879
marina@zcorp.com

At 08:49 AM 8/25/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>At 03:06 PM 8/21/97 -0400, DanF@aol.com wrote:
>>I am looking for information pertaining to MIT Technology used to produce a
>>new RP machine that is/will compete with other office-based modelers (Actua,
>>etc.). How close to a "3D printer" is this machine?
>>
>>Did I miss this information posted here previously?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>-Dan Feinberg
>>
>>
>I don't know anything more than that I think the maker is Z Corporation,
>and the contact Ms. Hatsopoulos. Anyone else?
>
>Mats J.
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