Akron Metal Etching has put textures on SLA parts for the footwear industry.
This has been done mainly for evaluating new ideas for appearance. See our
response to the original post. Also, Bruce LeMaster at Artcorp. has worked with
us on other projects.
Please contact us if you are interested in further conversation.
Respectfully,
Lee Eisinger
President
Akron Metal Etching
Akron, Ohio, USA
Erkut NEGIS wrote:
> Texturing on RP model?
> It would be very useful especially for the prototyping of footwear products.
> However I think that, currently, resolution of Autofab machines (including
> Sanders) is not enough to manufacture fine details like these.
> Besides that, a CAD software that has a real 3D texturing capability may
> need a very high computing power? (think how many polygons there must be?)
>
> BTW. Are there any one who use autofabrication technology for the RP&RT of
> footwear products?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Erkut NEGIS
> erkut@innotek.com.tr
>
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> >Dear list,
>
> >Is there a method to include texturing on the surface of a RP model?
> >Thanks
>
> >M.F.Hashim
> >RP Engineer
> >email : fauzih@hotmail.com
>
> For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
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