The entire engineering design process is not only time consuming but also daunting when the client asks for last moment alterations or changes. To leapfrog the situation, product designers thought advancements in 3D CAD technologies will impede the waste of resources but the question “can you prove it?” remained untouched. This is where rapid prototyping (RP) gained attention among engineers, manufacturers, and clients. Potential features of RP have changed the whole process of the manufacturing industry as it provides easy assembling of scattered physical parts into a prototype.
Prototypes are the face of any new product as it gives a general layout of how the product will look like when brought to life. Many people use rapid prototyping and 3D printing interchangeably, but in fact, they both are different terms of the product development process. 3D printing is a process while RP is the end result. RP is one of the many applications subcategorized under 3D printing for fast fabrication of a physical object from a CAD file.
