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Rapid prototyping is a brand new technology letting produce prototyping models of real objects in short time. The technology was invented in the late 1980s by an American engineer and has undergone great qualitative changes since that time. Nowadays rapid prototyping is very important when it comes to studies, research and development. Rapid prototyping technology is also very helpful in the preproduction testing of a prototyping model. This testing helps to identify all weak points of a prototype and, hence, of an object that is going to be released after prototyping model testing. It also helps to avoid all possible problems that can occur because of the designers’ faults and mistakes. Not so long ago – in the end of 20th century rapid prototyping process used to be both expensive and time-consuming. It hindered the production of actual product, making prototyping model creators produce new and new improved prototype models until they got the perfect one – without mistakes and disadvantages that could cost much to its producers. However, the moment came, when prototyping modeling became really rapid, giving the name to the modern rapid prototyping technology. It was computer numerical control that made rapid prototyping technology so fast and enhanced. A bit later this technology obtained one more technical name – computer-aided design, or CAD. With the usage of this innovation, rapid prototyping process became really ergonomic and time-consuming. Nowadays modeling of the rapid prototype takes not days or even weeks as it did before, but hours. Comparing to the past times, it is a great achievement of rapid prototyping creators. Firstly, the entire prototyping process was carried out manually in the end of 1980s. Of course, creation of every prototype was a real work of art, including not only creative approach and complicated manual work, but also a long-lasting carving and tooling to finish this or that model. It was obviously difficult to achieve a perfect likeness of original object, but prototyping masters managed to do this and, hence, the process required much time. Secondly, long production time was not the only disadvantage of the prototyping of previous generation. Apart from this, manual prototyping was extremely expensive, while manual work is highly appreciated by any industry in all corners of the globe. Consequently, the cost price of the finished prototyping model cannot be low as well. All these factors made prototyping not so popular, just because most industries could not afford such great expenses on preproduction testing of a product. Modern rapid prototyping is based on the layered technology with the usage of different types of materials from plastic to wax. It means that material is grown layer by layer, forming a prototype with a perfect shape. Such technology is relatively cheap and provides a client with an exact copy of the object that is to be released in the market. All this makes rapid prototyping technology a greatest innovation of the 20th century.

Over the recent decades rapid prototype services coped up with solving lots of tech problems. And rapid prototype might help you to. Please find out more about the rapid prototype industry and how it helps.